Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...illness may presage a happy event," the idea was loyally denied by the Queen's press secretary as "absolute nonsense." He had not been told the news. Last week the rumors were confirmed: for the first time since 1857, when Queen Victoria bore her ninth and last child (Princess Beatrice, who died in 1944), a reigning Queen of Britain was going to have a baby...
FEBRUARY BABY? asked the News Chronicle, but all the palace would say was that the royal personage would be born some time "early next year." If a boy, the child would take precedence over Princess Anne, who will be nine this week, as next in line for the British throne after ten-year-old Prince Charles. Already, the British press was sorting favorite names-George, Albert, James or Andrew for a prince; Mary, Elizabeth, Victoria or Charlotte for a princess. WELL, WHAT LOVELY NEWS, glowed the Daily Sketch. DELIGHTED, MA'AM ! added the Daily Mail...
...strikingly resembles. The professor is tricked into assuming the Frenchman's identity, along with a down-at-the-plumbing Loire chateau crammed with impressive horrors: the count's plaintive wife (Irene Worth), who fears for her life because of a portentous clause in her marriage contract; his child-mystic daughter (Annabel Bartlett), who paints pictures of "secret police" shooting arrows into St. Sebastian; a serpent-eyed sister (Pamela Brown) who blames her brother for the death of her fiance; and a dotty old dowager (Bette Davis) who writhes and flops about a cream-puffy bed, smokes cigars...
...homosexual affairs of Proust that Author Painter chronicles were with Reynaldo Hahn. a talented pianist and composer, and Lucien Daudet. foppish son of the famed novelist Alphonse. From each, Proust tried to extract the unconditional love his mother had given him as a child; in each he was disillusioned. But it was the Dreyfus affair that deglamorized high society for Proust. Jewish on his mother's side, he courageously declared himself a Dreyfusard and helped to circulate the first petition for Dreyfus' release. Ironically, when Dreyfus was finally released, Proust found him as unappealing an ex-martyr...
Last Train from Gun Hill. Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn fight it out in a western shot full of sociology, child psychology and Greek tragedy, while Carolyn Jones makes the best of it all as the funny, freaky heroine...