Word: croqueted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unreal life of the croquet tournament and the formal ball goes on today just as though nothing much had changed, except for the invention of air conditioning, since Henry Flagler first laid a railroad span across Lake Worth in 1894 and opened up an idyllic new playground to his friends. From what is probably the world's richest island, now at the height of the two-month ritual known simply as The Season, TIME'S Peter Range reports...
...film, emphasized by appropriate and cleverly orchestrated themes by John Addison, that reaches a jaunty high when Caine, who is able throughout, is disguised in a clown costume and about to break into the house. Caine actually becomes a clown as he makes his way across the croquet field, dodging the wickets but falling nevertheless, and making subtler visual jokes with the sticky putty in his collections of burgler tools...
...unintentional irony of Paul Scott's vast and impressive novel about the last days of the British raj in India is that, although Scott flays the British for the rigidities of their rule, the architectural scheme of his work is serenely imperial. It suggests croquet lawns and carriage drives and a degree of surface certitude that is distinctly viceregal. The Towers of Silence is the third volume of a series; a fourth book is promised to conclude the work...
...house from his mother in 1951. It had been empty for years, but in an excess of ancestral pride, he promptly set about making repairs. He also tried to restore the building's function as a family center, but without much luck: his children preferred Cape Cod. "The croquet set I hoped would occupy [the children]-we always used to play croquet-is still standing by the front door, with nobody ready...
Fashion Whimsy. Knickers, too, are currently occupying as prestigious a position in women's wardrobes as they once did in men's. No longer the saggy, baggy trademark of golfers, aging croquet enthusiasts and Jackie Coogan, the style has undergone a thorough rejuvenation, first at the virtuoso hands of couturiers Valentino and St. Laurent, now by just about every fashion house in the business. Macy's recently ran a full-page ad for "Happy Legs" knickers and sold 75 pairs in the first two hours after the store opened next morning...