Word: eden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high, craggy peaks of the Russian Caucasus mountains where the loftiest pinnacle in Europe, Mt. Elbrus, reaches 18,481 feet into the sky. Yet the deep green Caucasus valleys are lush with camphor trees, tangerines, bananas and even tropical palms. There, Caucasian tradition has it, the Garden of Eden was located, and there, as in Author James Hilton's mythical Tibetan valley of Shangri-La, native tribesmen live an incredibly long time. Ages well over 100 are commonplace in the Caucasus, a land of mixed nationalities which include gypsies from India, Turks, pure-blooded Semites, Finns, Mongolians and Negroes...
Tailor & Cutter, British trade magazine, picked the Marquess of Milford Haven as "the Sartorial Year's Best Man." Anthony Eden won the "Order of the Dead Needle" as "the year's big disappointment." Even the Canadian press had described Eden as "distinctly shabby," and he had made the shocking disclosure that he no longer had a tailor. But to British tailors the most painful sight of all was rumpled Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin: "We can think of no one else in a public position who seems to pay such little regard to his clothes...
Urbane Anthony Eden soothed imperial passions. He pleaded that Britain must rely on the "three unities" of Empire, Western Union and the U.S. Later Winston Churchill declared: "There is absolutely no need to choose between a united Empire and a united Europe." But a split remained. "One class and one policy, that should be our slogan," a delegate told a newsman. "But we are not one class, and for split policy, look at that over there...
...pointed to a corner of the Llandudno Grand Hotel's lounge, where Leopold Amery sat, sparrowlike, on the edge of a big easy chair, munching a cracker and talking to a circle of followers. In the opposite corner sprawled Anthony Eden, expounding his viewpoint to his own group of disciples. Both had to shout to be heard above the squeaky strains of a teatime violin, piano and cello...
...Born. To eden ("only God and the Infinite should be capitalized") ahbez, 36, bearded Hollywood yoga, whose recent attempt at songwriting netted him Nature Boy and a potential $20,000, and anna jacobson ahbez, thirtyish, vegetarian mystic : their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: tatha. Weight...