Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jehovah chiseled in granite, had inherited so much money that he never bothered to practice law, spent his days at his club. Mama Potter, who looked like Queen Victoria, discouraged overnight visitors by keeping her spare rooms so dusty that they were uninhabitable. Beatrix' chief diversion lay in frequent trips to picture galleries, of which she candidly detailed her impressions: Sir Joshua Reynolds was "niminy-piminy," while "Raphael had never looked at a horse." She was occasionally malicious: "Miss Ellen Terry's complexion is made of such an expensive enamel that she can only afford to wash...
...been the reconciliation between Eleanor and Franklin after their marriage was threatened, now he was hers to serve and to save." Nonetheless, F.D.R. and Lucy were to be "attached by ties of deep and unbroken affection to the day he died." By all accounts, F.D.R. thereafter kept in frequent contact with Lucy. For example, says Daniels, he "quietly arranged for special tickets and a special car for Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd at his Inauguration" in 1933. He also visited the Rutherfurds' stately winter home in Aiken, S.C., several times, and the Rutherfurds called at the White House. Daniels says that...
Offscreen, Heston is president of the Screen Actors Guild and a frequent industry spokesman. He has made four tours from Nigeria to Australia for the State Department. Last week he spent two days in Washington testifying before a Senate subcommittee on community-antenna television. As early as 1961, when most of his colleagues were ignoring the Negro revolution, Heston joined a civil rights demonstration in Oklahoma City. In 1963 he publicly attacked Hollywood's "sorry record" of discrimination...
Muddling Through. As a girl, Luci often seemed the victim of a younger-sibling complex, which she assuaged with the usual attention-getting gambits of childhood and adolescence. It was not a conventional upbringing for either Luci or her older sister Lynda Bird, now 22, because of frequent separations from their parents. Throughout the "deprivileged" years, as the sisters call them, Father was in perpetual political motion in Washington and Texas while Mother had the family interests to mind; until Luci was eleven, even her school year was divided between Austin and Washington. Most summers she went to camp...
...certainly does. The first-class passenger is deluged with free cocktails, champagne and steak-filet meals, offered a concert on earphones as well as movies. The stewardesses even wake people up to give them eyeshades for sounder sleeping. To woo frequent business travelers, American has a club for businessmen's secretaries, buys them dinners and takes them to the movies. Eastern sends secretaries flowers and seed packets...