Word: easterlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Raging Nor'easter. At home in Sydney Harbor, Gretel already had shown herself swift and maneuverable in medium winds...
...Siam to many of the great gold and silver plates on which the major towns of Russia offered their symbolic tribute of bread and salt to the Czar. But his major works were small and intimate. One day, Czar Alexander III asked him to do something special as an Easter present for the Czarina. Fabergé produced an enameled egg so pleasing that giving jeweled eggs became an Easter custom in the royal family. Each of the eggs held some surprise inside-other eggs, or perhaps a hen, or a miniature of the czarevitch. Even when Czar Nicholas...
...dozen high-ranking officers gently stepped over her. In 1961 Lucienne Salan followed her husband into the Generals' Revolt against De Gaulle, and when the putsch collapsed, she slipped into hiding with him. Lucienne adored her general; it was Salan's insistence on spending an Easter weekend with her in an Algiers apartment that led finally to his arrest -and Lucienne's own imprisonment in Fresnes Prison a few days later...
...will be parted. NIghtingale and HYacinth will nevermore breathe their poetry over Brooklyn's wires. The sands are running out fpr such venerable status symbols as Upper East Side Manhattan's BUtterfield 8 and REgent 4. They will some day be as obsolete as morning coats on Easter Sunday...
Martin de Porres' private life was austere. He never ate meat, fasted completely from Holy Thursday until noon on Easter. In imitation of St. Dominic, he lashed himself three times nightly with a whip whose hooked ends were weighted with iron. Once, when the convent fell into debt, he suggested that his superior could raise some of the money by selling him as a slave; the offer was prudently refused...