Word: duchessed
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...Chanel suit $2,200, pacesetters such as Mrs. William Paley and Jackie Kennedy also snap up the "line-for-line" copies available in the U.S. Manhattan Socialite Mrs. John Converse happily admits, "I love Ohrbach copies." She also likes American designers like Bill Blass and Mainbocher. Nowadays, the Duchess of Windsor, Mrs. Loel Guinness and Mrs. Jeanne Murray Vanderbilt shop on both sides of the ocean...
...treatment used for June Clark's sneezing [June 17] might be considered a sort of punitive reeducation. It recalls the advice of the Duchess in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland: "Speak roughly to your little boy,/And beat him when he sneezes:/He only does it to annoy,/ Because he knows it teases...
...band struck up God Save the Queen, and in solemn midnight darkness the Union Jack, which had flown over British Guiana for 152 years, slid slowly down the pole-to be replaced by a new five-color (green, red, yellow, black, white) flag. Thus-with the Duke and Duchess of Kent looking on as Britain's official representatives-did the tiny, oven-hot colony mark its independence last week and start life anew as the nation of Guyana (pronounced guy-an-uh, meaning "land of waters" in an Amerindian dialect) and as the 23rd member of the British Commonwealth...
...Angier Biddle Duke, pictured the annual fair in Seville, it was the essence of Spain, a six-day post-Lenten fiesta with superb bull fighting, Andalusian flamenco dancing all night long in the fair's tent village, colorful parades and a marvelous ball. What's more, the Duchess of Alba would be all too glad to have Jacqueline Kennedy as her guest...
...last week, Jackie, who is increasingly emerging from her mood of widowhood, set out for what she hoped would be a carefree Spanish holiday.* But like all dreams of castles in Spain, reality turned out to be something else again. Not that the Duke and Duchess of Alba were ungracious; if anything, they seemed a bit awed. With sweeping Spanish hospitality, they installed her in their Palacio de las Dueñas in the bed room once used by France's Empress Eugénie, great-grandaunt of the present duchess...