Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state occasion in Buenos Aires' majestic Colon Theater. In honor of visiting Japanese Crown Prince Akihito, the city had scheduled a gala performance of Stravinsky's ballet Rite of Spring, and Juan Carlos Ongania, the retired general who seized power last year, had agreed to attend. Ongania was not enjoying himself. In the middle of the performance, he rose from the presidential box and ushered his wife and 28-year-old daughter Sara to the rear. Rite of Spring, he informed Mayor Eugenio Schettini the next day, was a dirty ballet and should not be permitted in Buenos...
There she was, about to face the cream of Saratoga's August racing community. Not that they didn't all know each other; after all, it was the fifth party that Marylou had given in eight days. Nor was it because that, in honor of the Belmont Ball committee, she had invited them to, of all things, an after-the-races tea dance. "There are so many cocktail parties," Marylou said, "I wanted to do something just a little different." The reason for the apprehension was that "they"-the Wideners, the Wetherills, the Vanderbilts and the Sanfords-would...
...clues. Five of the six servants had taken off the night of the theft; the butler had locked every door but the front one. As the police pointed out, "Everyone who had access is a suspect." Marylou discovered the theft just before going out to a dinner in honor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which is playing at this year's Saratoga Performing Arts Center, one of Sonny's pet projects. She went to get her jewel box, stashed away between blankets in the linen closet ("one of my four secret places," she says), and discovered the jewels were...
...enemy can unite all men in common cause. When a teen age peasant girl (Patrizia Valturri) is entertained by the husbands in an afternoon of collective amiability, and later hauls them before a judge, they take up a collection to buy her off and rescue the community's honor...
...under parasols, while their husbands, decked out in white flannels and old school blazers, watch the tennis matches. And at nightfall, there is the Preservation Society Ball, the Tennis Ball, the White Elephant Ball, the Jazz Festival, plus a progression of wedding receptions and black-tie soirees in honor of anything and anyone, provided that he ranks somewhere up there with a U.S. Senator or a European count...