Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Duchess of Richmond's celebrated ball for Wellington's officers, on the eve of Waterloo, was a mere fish fry in comparison with the goings-on nowadays at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Jack and Jackie Kennedy's talent for serving up a dazzling concoction of beauty and brains, politics and culture, shamrocks and chandeliers is enough to boggle the most jaded eyes. Last week, at a couple of brilliant levees, the President and his First Lady did it again-and again...
...loyal subject and obedient taxpayer, I would like to inquire of the sovereign who is footing the bill for the Grand Tour of the Duke and Duchess of McLean...
...owned by the government, it was once a private residence. Once, when Queen Victoria visited, its splendor moved her to say to the owner's wife, the Duchess of Sutherland: "My dear, I come from my house to your palace."† KADU stands for Kenya African Democratic Union; KANU, Kenya African National Union...
...royal family's third-string Kensington Palace has seldom made news since the Duchess of Kent had a daughter there in 1819-and even then no one suspected that the gel would one day be Queen of England and Empress of India. Last week Queen Victoria's birthplace was less happily back in the headlines. In the House of Commons, a Labor M.P. suggested tartly that "at this time, when there are thousands of homeless in London," the government showed "deplorable priority sense" in spending $238,000 in public funds to repair the palace for its new occupants...
...hits intuitively on a devastating lie: she tells her grandmother that she has seen the two teachers embracing. Here Wyler's notion of registering childish malevolence is to have twelve-year-old Actress Balkin roll her eyes, scowl, bare her teeth and jerk her head back like a duchess regarding a spider, every time she is on-camera. To make sure no one misses the significance of those moments when the girl is hatching her nastiness, Wyler underscores with vibrant significance music. Composer Alex North's score, a banality that would seem gross in a John Wayne picture...