Word: consorts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tried all my life to drink," Helen Hayes told a Manhattan interviewer, "and I don't like it. I consort with nobody but drinkers. I married a good two-fisted drinker. Once I felt I had found something I could drink-vodka. But it was the same as with every other drink. I just got sleepy and had to be taken home...
...Comte de Paris, despite a somewhat squirrelish appearance, is personally a likable pretender. He is no sly neurotic, but a sobersided young man who studied politics at the Universities of Louvain and Brussels and likes to fly airplanes. His attractive young consort, the former Princess Isabelle d'Orléans-Bragance, 31, daughter of the late Brazilian Pretender Dom Pedro, would well become a throne. The would-be royal couple, incidentally, have six small children who are pictorially much more effective than their father...
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...