Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Fort Antoine, a 47-mm. cannon boomed the first of 101 saluting shots, and 2,500 Monegasques began to celebrate. Church bells pealed, teen-agers sang and snake-danced about Monaco's pink palace, as Prince Rainier III bowed from the balcony. About an hour before, Princess Grace delivered to her tax-free citizens a second child (the first, in 1957: Princess Caroline) and a male heir presumptive: Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre. If and when he should take the throne, the Grimaldi heir will be known as Albert...
...pink stucco palace of Monaco, Princess Grace calmly awaited her second child, and Prince Rainier amused himself in the royal zoo. But behind the apparent serenity of Their Serene Highnesses, a serious political crisis lurked in the shadows. For the first time in the eight-year reign of the chubby Prince, the National Council (which is elected by Monaco's male citizens, has only advisory power) dared to challenge Rainier's status as Europe's only surviving absolute ("by divine right") monarch. Not only did the Council demand constitutional reforms from the Prince, but also that...
...year-old daughter. To Farrell, his feet barely steady after an imaginative seven-day excursion through space (in a grounded chamber in Texas), the revelation meant that his penpal romance with a Niagara Falls secretary was "up in the air." An expert on more earthly pleasures, bestselling Novelist Grace Metalious, 33, popped into an Alabama court, picked up a quickie divorce from husband George, three days later married her longtime friend, ex-Disk Jockey Thomas Martin, 33. Said the unblushing authoress of the unblushing Peyton Place: Martin "was the only man in my world who made me feel intensely female...
...Crickets. Purpose of the five-year course is to train the girls to support themselves as governesses, social workers, children's counselors and above all to be confident women who "know how to grace a home." Courses include Italian literature, history, geography, science, mathematics, French. English and religion (the last two taught by Mother Mary herself...
...Peter and his friends (John 21:9-12). Such scriptural sources and sauces have been tapped for a brand-new manual of Christian cookery, The Bible Cookbook (Bethany Press; $3.95). Author Marian Maeve O'Brien, food editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, teaches Sunday-school at Grace Episcopal Church in suburban Kirkwood, and her Biblical studies have well served her culinary know...