Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fatherland Week, as the holiday is called, was the kind of glittering circus that could be mounted by no Latin American nation except oil-rich Venezuela. Pérez Jiménez and his guest got things started by snapping to attention in Caracas' Plaza Bolívar while a comely maiden presented a "sacred torch," run into town by relays of students from the battle shrine at Carabobo, 120 miles away. Then, before a crowd of 100,000, the two strongmen dedicated the Avenue of Heroes, a gaudy, neo-Grecian plaza fronting the mammoth Armed Forces Club...
...Bettina, cavorted on the carousel, U.S. Ambassador Jock Whitney sloshed into a mud puddle, and Sir Hartley Shawcross, onetime British attorney general, navigated a rumba. Mike missed no chance to brandish the pregnancy of his third wife, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor. Item: at the première, piqued when distinguished guests were tardy, Todd rushed his wife to a chair, crying for all to hear: "What would you do if your wife was pregnant?" Item: at the party, a drunken guest teetered against Liz. Todd seized the sot, pushed him to the edge of the lake. "My wife is pregnant...
...preceded the announcement of the big change in U.S.-Japanese relations, Kishi racked up many a personal and diplomatic kudos for himself. Ike and Kishi lunched informally at the White House soon after the Premier's arrival, then drove out to Burning Tree, where Ike presented his golfing guest with a personally ordered, matched set of Ben Hogan irons and woods. Inscribed in gold on the leather bag: "To Prime Minister Kishi from President Eisenhower." At the first tee, understandably nervous with his new bag of sticks, the diminutive (5 ft. 4 in.) Premier sliced a drive into...
...Lehman, the banker from New York who is currently showing 300 of his treasures at the Orangerie des Tuileries is, truth to tell, an amateur of art with the best of taste." For once the rest of Paris' many-hued press was in agreement ; the Louvre's guest show for the summer was a smash hit and the talk of Paris. Editorialized Carrefour: "We would like the purchases of our museums to be inspired by a taste as severe as that of which M. Robert Lehman today gives us such dazzling evidence...
Catherine, who survived her husband by two years, bore him eight children. In many ways he was a child to her too, and she was protective about him. One dinner guest who differed with William on the subject of opium felt a note smuggled into his hand: "Do not contradict the Prime Minister." But when "England's voice," speaking through Gladstone, went on too long and Catherine felt that the pumped-out moment had arrived, she could be firm about cutting him off. Once she hurled a phrase at him that is the measure of the woman: "Oh, William...