Word: gingerbread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bleak Deadlock. Next day Castillo Armas and Monzón flew to San Salvador for the first meeting in the gingerbread presidential palace. In high hopes, the two old friends started talks at 3 p.m. But twelve hours later, there was only a bleak deadlock. The issue: Which of them should take top power and responsibility? Sleepless Jack Peurifoy learned in alarm of the impasse and caught a plane to San Salvador. Looking like a dashing sportsman in a green Tyrolean hat and checked jacket, he talked separately with Monzón and Castillo Armas (whom he met there...
Wellspring of the show was the genius of Andersen himself. Born to a poor and slightly unbalanced cobbler, Andersen liked to dabble in art; he was pretty good at cutting out silhouettes, once designed a whole new set of shapes for gingerbread cookies. But Andersen's real gift was painting word pictures that appealed to children everywhere. Nearly all of the youthful illustrators who submitted entries in the current show were already familiar with Andersen's tales in their own languages...
Bananas & Gingerbread. Last June 53-year-old Queen Salote traveled halfway round the world to see and meet Elizabeth at her coronation in London. Many a Londoner still has a vivid impression of the tall (6 ft. 3 in.), infinitely dignified Polynesian monarch as she rode through the rain in her open coronation carriage, disdaining the protection of even an umbrella in deference to her sister sovereign. The cheers that resounded for Queen Salote on London's streets that day were second only in volume (by actual measurement) to those which rang out for Elizabeth herself...
Pigs, Paint, Pineapples. Salote spent the week rushing about her island, keeping the festive spirit under control and supervising all the details of preparation. She saw the last of a spanking new coat of paint slapped on to her white Victorian-gingerbread royal palace, oversaw daily rehearsals of the entertainment program, including the plaintive nose-fluting solos dear to the heart of every Tongan despite the fact that their music is limited to three notes. There were triumphant rustic arches, bearing the legend "I Love You" to be made for the royal route of march, tapa cloth banners...
...strikes me "that our return to political sanity, as evidenced at the polls last November, might just possibly hold some promise of a return to economic sanity and automobiles that are functional to a degree, with the gingerbread and built-in mortgages left...