Word: coquet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dressed carelessly in his writing habit: grey pullover sweater, corduroy slacks, white wool socks and loafers. He has taken breakfast with his wife Helen, a handsome woman decidedly Lippmann's intellectual peer. He has paid brief but fond attention to his French poodles, Vicky and Coquet. He has concluded thoughtful tours of three morning papers, with stops at all the international datelines. Across Woodley Road and through his study windows drifts the gay, playtime treble of his neighbors, the girls at National Cathedral School...
...Charles Stuart. "In the presence of death," writes Author Williamson, "the King recovered all his dignity, and fell back upon his noblest line of defence-his loyalty to the form of religion in which he had been nurtured. He was no longer driven by fate to conciliate Presbytery or coquet with Catholicism." It is hard now to say that he was a wise king, or even a good one, and his 24-year reign gave England some of its worst hours. Civil wars and wars of religion always produce the deepest horrors and fiercest indignities. Charles's England suffered...
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