Word: estee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Sir Augustus d'Este (a cousin of Queen Victoria*) fell ill, he made a careful note of his symptoms: he saw double, could scarcely balance himself, felt weak all over, and parts of his body were numb. That was in 1822, and for a century and a quarter...
The holiday season came to subequatorial South America on the crest of a blistering heat wave. In Santiago, Chileans sipping their traditional cola de mono (monkey's tail-milk, cinnamon, and coffee laced with aguardiente), fanned themselves as the thermometer climbed to 93°. At Viña del...
Beatrice d'Este was 16 when the future Duke of Milan married her (in 1491), and probably not much older when Leonardo da Vinci painted her portrait for the Duke, his patron. Innocent, fresh and direct, the portrait was like a summing up of everything that the complex, secretive...
For those who liked informality, there was Uruguay's cosmopolitan Punta del Este, where everybody wore slacks or bright bathing suits. Few Argentines could afford Uruguayan vacation rates any more (about $50 a day in inflated Argentine pesos), but Brazilians, who turned to Uruguay's casinos after their...
For his part, the President went out of his way to show that he had acted without personal rancor in dispensing with Miranda's public services. On the day after the shuffle, when Peron received the Mexican decoration of the Order of the Aztec Eagle, Miguel Miranda stood at...