Word: grandees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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You mention the luminarias, of which we are very proud here in the Southwest. They are festive lights made, as you say, by sand-filled paper bags containing lighted candles. The tradition is that the luminarias guide the Christ Child to every home. The custom is Spanish, and it started...
From her forthcoming book on the most vexing associates of her 74 years ("Once famous, one is subjected to nothing but insults"), Dame Edith Sitwell, grande dame of Britain's most imposing and impossible literary family, leaked the first bit of spleen: that D. H. Lawrence would be among...
Edna Ferber's 1952 Texas novel, Giant, made such a searing impression on them that the evils of "ednaferberism" are still good for a diatribe from the Panhandle to the Rio Grande. Novelist Ferber gathered all the Texacana she thought she needed in a six-week visit-though, as...
Among the holdovers from the past season, Mary, Mary incites full houses to laugh along with Playwright Jean Kerr. In Camelot, a new King Arthur (William Squire) presides over the Round Table. Irma La Douce is still the most delectable way to tour the Parisian underworld. Broadway's Carnival...
Among the holdovers from the past season, Mary, Mary incites full houses to laugh along with Playwright Jean Kerr. In Camelot, a new King Arthur (William Squire) presides over the Round Table. Irma La Douce is still the most delectable way to tour the Parisian underworld. Broadway's Carnival...