Word: jardine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comes out of Pearl's researches unscathed (save for a regal tendency, noted by Gladstone, to spike her claret with whisky). But Edward VII, her son and heir, was such a celebrated patron of the tarts that La Goulue (Lautrec's model) would call out at the Jardin de Paris: "Allo, Wales! Est-ce-que tu vas payer man champagne...
...Hanoi there was an undertow of fear. There were more tanks, more armored cars in the streets, more Vietnamese guardsmen drilling in the Jardin Botanique. There were more bandaged soldiers in the grim De Lanessan hospital, and there were many more planes in the sky. Sometimes the French 105-mms. pounded unseen targets unusually close to the suburbs; or an alien burst of machine-gun fire slashed across one of the two city airfields; or a trigger-happy Senegalese sentry fired and shouted in the dark. French and Vietnamese housewives were finding everyday items much harder to get, much more...
Along the flowered streets of Matamoros' El Jardin district, there are so many new and luxurious houses that one awed American mumbled: "This is just what the South must have been like before the Civil War." But none of the houses is so spectacular as a palace, now abuilding up the river at Nuevo Laredo, with 17 bathrooms, a swimming pool, five-car garage and three bars. For miles around, everyone knows that the house belongs to Chito Longoria, eldest (46) of the five Longoria brothers, who have done more than anyone else to make the once-dry lands...