Word: consorting
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Lanny Budd, a sort of contemporary Renaissance Prince, is half-symbol, half-character. Pinkish, amiable, charming, and vaguely uneasy about his softness, he plays prince consort to his rich bride Irma, who in turn plays salonnière in a million-franc-per-year Parisian palace, and who is a comic-strip X-ray of heiress mentality...
...field of battle carry over into private life? The enlisted man in the army of our democratic country, for instance, is not permitted to address the wife or daughter of a commissioned officer on the street, even if he knows her. Wives of officers in the Navy do not consort with the wives of the gobs and the petty officers, no matter what their status in society before they were married. The draftee, no matter how much of a social lion he may be at home, is prohibited from going out with the army nurses, because the successors of Florence...
...large, luxurious legation of Luxembourg in Washington one day last week Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Charlotte and her dashing consort Prince Felix gave a reception. Guests were Cabinet members, Ambassadors, Government officials, other bigwigs. But the guest of honor was a stocky, middle-aged man with a long face and a white-toothed smile who has never held any diplomatic post above that of charge d'affaires: Alabama-born George Platt Waller, for ten years consul and charge d'affaires in Luxembourg...
...King Carol and his Elena moved on to Vera Cruz, Mexico, from Cuba, where the social going has been tough for the consort. They talked of spending three months in Mexico...
...nearly a year Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands has lived quietly in Canada with her two daughters, separated almost for the first time in her life from her mother, tough-fibered Queen Wilhelmina. Also in England with the Queen has stayed the Princess' fast-driving, German-born consort, Prince Bernhard...