Word: eliza
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...Khan, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford and all the other jet-set guests showed up in ascots, ostrich feathers and grey top hats. "There was not an egret plume or a false moustache to be had in Paris that evening," purred Mme. Rochas happily. Celebrating a sort of Eliza Doolittle Night in La Grande Cascade Restaurant in the Bois, the glittering Edwardians could have danced all night-and did, until...
...there was Audrey Hepburn, the girl who got the movie part but no Oscar nomination. Audrey was there by Academy request to fill in for stroke-stricken Pat Neal and present the best-actor award. And there was Rex Harrison, a sure winner who had played with both Eliza Doolittles...
...pretty clothes of any kind. While a Moslem theater in New Delhi not long ago staged a local version of Shaw's Pygmalion, the original My Fair Lady, modern-minded Indians point out bitterly that a Hindu version would be unthinkable: as the daughter of a dustman, Eliza Doolittle would be an Untouchable. Hence Brahmin Henry Higgins' housekeeper would never let her use the same plates and bedding as the rest of the household. And if the high-caste guests at the famous tea party guessed they were socializing with an Untouchable, they would drop their teacups...
...many centuries, royal patronage was an index to British culture. Eliza beth I learned that "the Italians had the name to be the cunningest," but what Italian paintings the crown acquired were largely sold off by Cromwell though the Restoration Stuarts searched to recover them...
Regrettably, substance is frequently sacrificed to surface. Like Eliza crossing the ice floes, the compulsive witticist in Mrs. Kerr reflects a mind too busy to stop and sink. But unlike lesser jokesmiths, Jean Kerr can always be trusted to produce the wit that is instant wisdom, as in "The affair you don't get over is the one you never...