Word: hyde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...royal wedding next month. The stated reason : a recurrence of jaundice. When clamorous newsmen asked if Fry were stepping down for any reason apart from his health, a royal spokesman replied: "No comment." The sensational Sunday newspaper, The People, breathlessly revealed that in 1952 Fry had been arrested in Hyde Park, fined ?2 after pleading "guilty to a minor offense," and stated in court, "I'm afraid I was rather drunk...
Cousteau has been traveling ever since. His father, Daniel P. Cousteau, is a witty, urbane lawyer whose job consisted in being factotum and traveling companion to a pair of itinerant U.S. millionaires. The first was James Hazen Hyde, high-living son of the founder of Equitable Life Assurance Society. Back in 1905, as an Equitable vice president, Hyde had given a $200,000 costume party in Manhattan that put the whole insurance business under outraged public scrutiny, brought on an investigation by the New York State legislature. In anger, Hyde sold his stock, huffed off to self-exile in Europe...
Most Wanted. But more and more, as the oldtime nannies dwindle, the mothers of England have, had to take over. In Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, the nannies shudder at the modern English child, dressed, not in flaring coat and velvet collar, but in jeans and sweaters. The harassed mothers are apt to shudder, too, and each day brings more plaintive pleas in the newspapers: "Kindly, reliable nanny wanted." In such cases, the "titled lady" who advertises has the advantage...
Core Course. In New Hyde Park, N.Y., when Kindergarten Teacher Florence Ann Mostler, 24, got married, 30 of her pupils showed up at the church, each carrying a shiny red apple...
...householders, who believe that an Englishman's castle extends at least to his curb. But housewives agreed it made their Christmas shopping the easiest in years. By last week Marples was taking measures to give him more direct control over traffic police and to build vast garages under Hyde Park, increase traffic fines, rebuild roads. Most of his proposals, though shocking to the British, are old remedies in the U.S. But he had a few touches of his own, including buying World War II surplus Bailey bridges from the War Office to throw across congested road crossings...