Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elizabeth Arden Graham, shrewd careerist of paddock (Maine Chance Farm) and beauty parlor, observed: "Women and fine horses are much alike. It is strictly a matter of conformation...
...your Aug. 22 issue: "[Elizabeth Taylor's] complexion has been described by an ecstatic publicity man as 'a bowl of cream with a rose floating in it.' " Please compare . . . Elegy on Cynthia of Sextus Propertius: "Lilies would not surpass my mistress for whiteness; 'tis as though maeotic snows were to strive with Spanish vermillion, or rose leaves floated amid stainless milk (utque rosae puro lacte natant folia)." Please remember Propertius lived circa 24 B.C., and besides, Cynthia, we are told, had yellow hair and black eyes. Could she have been the ecstatic publicity...
...christening ceremony and the photographers' floodlights had been a little too much last December for Prince Charles of Edinburgh. He had howled loud and long. But he was older now, all of nine months. Last week, without the moral support of the presence of his mother, Princess Elizabeth, he stood up well under the ordeal of his first boughten haircut at Birkhall, near Balmoral, Scotland, where the royal family is vacationing. His golden locks were trimmed enough to give him "a young gentleman's appearance" by Felix West, of Trumper's, London, who also cuts the hair...
...QUESTION OF GREGORY (309 pp.) -Elizabeth Janeway - Doubleday...
...Question of Gregory, Author Elizabeth Janeway (The Walsh Girls, Daisy Kenyan) tries hard but unconvincingly to show just what her protoplasmic hero would do after that. First John got suddenly drunk in his office. When he sobered up, he withdrew what money he had from the bank and ran out on his wife and on his job in the Department of Public Information. Apparently, all Gregory needed was a chance to stand on his own feet for a while. Jobs as a mechanic in Vermont and Detroit and a brief love affair with his ex-secretary in Washington soon...