Word: elegante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The list could be extended. I single out Mssrs. Schwarz, Parry, and Houston because they redeem themselves with other entries: Schwarz with some of his cartoons, Parry with a parody of Hemingway, Houston with a parody of Salinger. These contributions, some elegant drawings by Sam Little, a game called "The...
Married. Sarah Churchill, 47, occasional actress and Sir Winston's frolicsome second daughter; and Thomas Percy Henry Touchet Tuchet-Jesson, Lord Audley, 48, elegant onetime manufacturer of crystal tableware; she for the third time, he for the second; in Gibraltar's Rock Hotel.
"This is the language of responsibility." They handed down to the 20th century a lean, taut prose that reflected a cooler, grimmer appraisal of life. "I believe that force is the ultima ratio" wrote Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who fought in the war for three years and was almost killed...
Died. Thomas Bull, 96, courtly, wing-collared interior decorator, a Norwegian-born tastemaker whose elegant curlicues adorned New York's costliest mansions (among his clients: the Morgans, Vanderbilts, Woolworths) as well as Schrafft's restaurants, who outlived both his patrons and his style, never losing his firm distaste...
"Well, here you are," he exclaimed in the fluid tones of the Via Veneto and then sprang lightly toward me, proffering a loosely-packed Nazionale. "You want to know about my career as film importer, yes?" queried the elegant Roman as he pointed to a chair and chose for himself...