Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Down. Sure enough, Precedential Adviser Shaw has recorded some fascinating shifts, additions and subtractions, and they are now de rigueur. That is because "Gallic" Shaw is the Lady Umpire of the Social Game. She is 59, the daughter of a now-deceased social secretary who first started the Green Book series back in 1930, and she knows her social shallots. Her list, she says, comprises "important people from the social or civic angle and old blue-bloods-people who make the wheels go around in Washington...
...Ambassador Herve Alphand, for example, "used to be a very reasonable man," says a fellow countryman, "but since De Gaulle . . ." It has been said that if Alphand feels slighted at a dinner, he grabs his chapeau and leaves. Once, at a dinner party given by "Scottie" Lanahan (daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald), Alphand discovered that Adlai Stevenson was scheduled to sit at the hostess' right. Alphand thought he ought to have that place of honor. After all, the French Ambassador outranks the U.S. Ambassador...
...still enforce his 15-minute cutoff on office interviews with other associates. Men who have worked with him for decades and live in his Hampstead neighborhood have never stepped inside the modest, cluttered house at 12 Southway, where he lives with his wife Mary, a Congregationalist minister's daughter, and their two sons, Robin, 19, and Giles, 15. Says one acquaintance: "I don't think anybody really knows Harold. He hasn't got any friends, as you and I mean the word...
...reputation at least, has been flitting about the countryside working miracles. Known simply as "the Saint," she first appeared, according to rumor, on a mountain-top and began turning water from a dirty stream into miraculously clean holy water. A father reported that she cured his daughter's acne; two little boys who were mutes were taken to her, have since started uttering sounds. As word of her feats spread, Buddhist faithful by the thousands began jamming the narrow, rain-soaked paths leading to the mountaintop. Taking no chances that the pilgrims might turn into antigovernment demonstrators, authorities called...
...embassy has not been generally sympathetic to the Diem government's policies toward the Buddhists. Madame Nhu's father, former ambassador to the United States, resigned last month in protest over his government's religious policies. At the time, he attacked his daughter for her part in formulating the policies...