Word: duked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With shipwrecked Viola masquerading as a page for the Duke Orsino--awaiting the proper moment to reveal her true state--the complicated plot of disguises and counterdisguises unfolds against an admirably uncomplicated set. A charming use of music and a minimum of props set the tone for each act, with extravagant costuming and clever staging making the most of the abundant puns and wit in the play...
...former director of New York City's Haryou-Act, a forerunner of national poverty programs; in a fall from a viaduct; in Manhattan. One of the first black graduates of Columbia University's medical school, Logan was physician to both the late Rev. Martin Luther King and Duke Ellington...
...grandmother." By early morning the streets were bedecked with 12-ft.-long Union Jacks and white and purple flags bearing the initials A and M. Tens of thousands of people jammed the route to catch a glimpse of the glass coach bearing the princess and her father, the Duke of Edinburgh. All in all there were nine horse-drawn carriages in the procession, accompanied by the Queen's Household Cavalry, resplendent in scarlet-plumed gold helmets...
These autumn evenings, she likes to reminisce about happier days. Recently, she surprised some guests by singing the German words to a sentimental old waltz that she and the duke first heard in Vienna long ago. Translation...
...chosen her tombstone-cream-colored Welsh marble-to match the duke's. She has even settled on the inscription: "Wallis, Duchess of Windsor." One day her stone will be placed alongside his under a wide-spreading plane tree on the lawn at Frogmore in Windsor Park, where the bodies of Victoria and Albert also lie. In life, the royal family would not receive Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson. One day she will be among them forever...