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...Poor Marie Antoinette." Grace saw to it that she was not excluded for long. Her parties, on which in her heyday she spent about half a million a year, became famed for their opulence. For one Fēte des Roses she brought the entire cast of Red Rose Inn, then in the midst of a highly successful New York fun, to a theater built especially for the occasion on the grounds of Beaulieu, her red brick villa at Newport. Said one of her guests, the Grand Duke Boris of Russia: "Is this really your America or have I landed...
...present heyday of high pressure University dining halls where diners are dealt with the speed of a card simile, leisure and elegance are otter deemed obstructions to progress. In this utilitarian atmosphere, the Lowell House High Table, a very elegant and leisurely formal dinner of the House's master, tutors, and invited Seniors (chosen in rotation) comes as a curious anomaly...
...York and New Jersey, his swaddling clothes might be less than clean, but still he is there. Mayors, executives, and union officials, some with names reminiscent of the innocent's heyday, Prohibition, have joined in a prolonged chorus of pained right-cousness...
Legend has far outlived the historic facts. The last Communist group in the University, the American Youth for Democracy, sputtered and died four years ago. The thirties were their heyday, and if any Red cells do meet secretly today, they must surely gaze wistfully back to that...
...President. As Ike Eisenhower campaigned through Iowa in mid-September, he drew the biggest political crowds the state had seen since Franklin Roosevelt's heyday. Stevenson plans one speech in the state-at Fort Dodge...