Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shocked her graver sister by noting that her nursery footman was "frightfully handsome." At 14, Margaret was caught sampling the King's champagne. At a recent party, the King told her not to drink any more sherry. "If you don't let me have another glass," said Margaret promptly, "I won't launch your old ships for you." The King gave in. Once when Elizabeth tried to discipline her she snapped: "You can go look after your Empire...
...copy of the speech or listen to it on the radio. But for TIME you would have to be on the scene-to know whether his tie was under his chin or drooping to his waist, whether he gulped water from a pitcher or a jug or a glass, etc. You would have to know whether his wife was on the speaker's stand nodding her head affirmatively, negatively, or not at all because she was reading the comic strips...
...barker, to teach them how to use the new leisure. "I just think about what I'd like for a holiday," says South Africa-born Billy, "and then I give it to 'em." For the aspidistras of the traditional boarding house Billy has substituted neon lights and glass brick; for shoddy, scabrous hotels, rows of neat, bright cottages; and for listless hours when the rain is falling, a round of regimented frolic that smashes British reserve...
...little time to stand and wonder what next. Bustling all around him on the long, flat station platform was a group of bright young girls and athletic men in red blazers. Bursting with good cheer, they whisked Alf and his friends over green fields to a cluster of glass-sided buildings topped by a huge white tower bearing the word "Butlin's" in four-foot letters. All around the tower were ranks of brightly colored, stucco cottages ("chalets") stretching down...
...kind of studied coyness and poeticism occasionally flaws a prose that is otherwise like a sheet of plate glass. But the two longest pieces (the title story and one called The Child Is the Meaning...