Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liner Constitution, a crowd of hundreds thronged Pier 84 in Manhattan one foggy day last week. Man, woman and teen-ager alike, they were waiting for a glimpse of the movie queen (Grace Patricia Kelly) who was sailing to Monaco to wed the reigning Prince (His Serene Highness Rainier III). Two hours before sailing time, Grace arrived in a black limousine, wearing a beige wool suit, a white straw hat shaped like a mushroom, and a radiant look. Not far to the rear came a retinue of 80-friends, relatives, business associates. And then-tagged "Grace Kelly, The Palace, Monaco...
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...reaction to this global challenge has been such that 38 per cent of the people questioned in a recent Calcutta poll selected the United States as the nation most likely to start World War III, while only 2 per cent selected the Soviet Union and 1 per cent the Peoples Republic of China...
America must now fight a third world war, this time against the Communist world and the colored world sectors on the warpath against white colonialism. I am against World War III being fought by the U.S., as I was against our fighting World War II. Does this justify calling me a Communist or a supporter of the Communist cause against dear old Chiang on Formosa, or of the native cause of the Moslem terrorists in North Africa against our British and French allies, without whom we are not supposed to be able to stand alone, or of the Greek cause...
...that was "a vast sink of sweated female labor," the ladies of easy virtue rode through Hyde Park in such splendid carriages or on such fine horses that the popular euphemism for rich prostitutes of the time was "pretty horse-breakers." One, Lizzie Howard, became the mistress of Napoleon III, and a French countess, and died a rich woman. Cora Pearl (born Crouch and no kin to Author Pearl), one of the few prostitutes to win mention in the Dictionary of National Biography, also made good in Paris. The book's title is provided by Catherine...