Word: chery
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Sidonie-Gabrielle Claudine Co lette Gauthier-Villars de Jouvenel Goudeket (Colette), 81, called by Poet Paul Claudel "the greatest living writer in France" (Cheri, Gigi); of a heart ailment; in Paris. At 20, Colette married Henri Gauthier-Villars, a potboiling hack who won fame by publishing under his own name the novels he forced her to turn out, in turn did much to teach her a style as ruthlessly chaste as her heroines were unchaste. Colette depicted quietly desperate women in love and in bed, became the most honored female writer in France's history, first woman president...
...holding beside a lake, a visit to Dublin's Royal Theater and the prince's victory (his 102nd win as a jockey) in the last race at the Kilbeggan Meeting. While the cheering track crowd shouted, "Good old Alec McCann" (Aly's local nickname), Gene burbled, "Cheri, you were wonderful." The Kilcullen villagers watched the holidaying couple good-humoredly, especially after the prince donated ?100 to help build a new school. Said one: "He didn't give a cent when he had Rita up here. It's a sign-you would know to look...