Word: lacayo
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...minister's wife Jean did not bat an eyelash. "If you do not hereafter keep away you will feel the force of powder and lead upon you," she told them. "If no one else would shoot you I would do it myself." Three cheers for muscular Christianity. --By Richard Lacayo...
...photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, later Lord Snowdon, ended in divorce in 1978. But before it did, she carried on a five-year caprice with landscape gardener Roddy Llewellyn, who was 17 years younger. The British press was inflamed. Some years later, Princess Diana picked up the torch. --By Richard Lacayo...
...these pages) have never been published before. She knows how to give great men and women their due when 21 guns are saluting. But she also sees them as they appear when Hail to the Chief isn't playing and nobody is looking. Or nobody but her. --By Richard Lacayo...
...Little Woods' cooks did not monitor the temperature of the turkeys as they cooked. The officials also noted some other uninvited guests: an infestation of cockroaches in the kitchen. "It's bad enough that we have to think about safety when we send our kids to school," says Neketa Lacayo, who still quizzes her daughter Naiah McGruder, 9, nightly about what she eats in the school cafeteria. "When this happened, I wondered, Was [her lunch] something else I had to worry about...
...melancholy, a requiem for reading, it would be handsome but unhelpful. It's not in his ambivalent nature to provide anything so clear-cut as answers (he's beautifully beset), but he frames the questions fully and with feeling. Do good books matter anymore? This one does. --By Richard Lacayo...