Word: ducal
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...picturebook town with medieval houses and a ducal castle, Celle is about 20 miles from Hannover. It had kept its traditions even through the Third Reich. With the coming of the airlift, Celle's burghers found themselves thrust into an atmosphere of sex and schnapps. From all over Germany eager opportunists rushed to Celle to help make the G.I.s happy. Jazz bands filled the town with boogie-woogie. A hundred new bars opened up. Taxi drivers came from as far away as Hamburg to work in Celle. They took meters off, charged $5 to nearby Fassberg airport, where...
...scraped a poor living in the civil service. Almost from the time he could toddle, the brawny boy was steeped in the favorite subject of Britain's poorer gentlefolk-the ancient and glorious past of the withered family tree. Impoverished Father Doyle claimed a relationship with the ducal house of Brittany. Little Arthur spent many of his juvenile hours memorizing the family coats-of-arms, while his plucky mama briskly scrubbed the floor and called out knightly maxims: "Fearless to the strong; humble to the weak!" "Chivalry towards all women, of high or low degree...
...Latest member of the disc jockey club was grizzled Duke Ellington, 48, who settled happily into an armchair at Manhattan's WMCA last week and contemplated his possible winnings (a reported ducal $75,000 a year, maybe more, if a hoped-for 150 stations buy his transcribed show). As a jockey, the Duke promised to be impressive: his jazz know-how gave his between-platter comments a fine mood indigo. One record, he decided, had a "pear ice cream" flavor; Songstress Sarah Vaughn was "serpentine and opalesque"; Crooner Vic Damone "caressed with satin and gave a back porch intimacy...
...three main roads to Rome last week two Italian Army trucks rolled south. They had come from Munich, with $10 million worth of art under their tarpaulins. At the Ducal Palace in the mountain city of Bolzano, the trucks halted and weary armed guards began unloading the crates. They would be safe there until a show to celebrate their return could be arranged at Rome...
Wigs & Tories. But even Linda's ducal grand passion conforms to the general tone of The Pursuit of Love-which plays on the surface of life so wittily and deftly that it makes far better fiction than, say, the leaden soundings of James T. Farrell. It excels in fluent, natural descriptions of English country life (that peculiar combination of rigorous and relaxed living), in its feminine lightness, and in its sharp summings-up of occasional characters-such as prematurely balding Lord Fort William, whose "hair seemed to be slipping off backwards, like an eiderdown in the night," and Linda...