Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Victor Vintage). An album of original recordings from the late '20s with a number of rare gems-Gene Austin crooning Jeannine, I Dream of Lilac Time, Vaughn de Leath treacling out Baby Your Mother, Jack Smith whispering Me and My Shadow and Irene Bordoni French-accenting her way through Cole Porter's saucy Don't Look at Me That...
...household while keeping up with the capital's intellectual and social whirl. She hired a social secretary to work, as she later recalled, "three mornings a week." Her new helper was tall, strikingly attractive Lucy Page Mercer, 22, the daughter of a socially impeccable Maryland family that had lately fallen on hard times. To Roosevelt, then 31, Lucy Mercer became far more than a mere employee. In fact, says a World War II aide of the late President, F.D.R. and Lucy began a romance that was to span 30 years...
Behind the frenzy was some kind of struggle in Peking's high inner councils. Hints emerged that certain party officials were arguing for a softening of the ten-month purge that has swept the country. One day Peking's newspapers were nine hours late reaching the stands. The reason for the delay, according to rumors in the capital, was a decision to withdraw a front-page picture of Chairman...
...decadence stinks like a long-since-wilted magnolia, but Author Wilkinson magically refreshes its fragrance with images new as dew: "A green snake weaved around the rocks, rolling like a liquid in hot glass until the grass pulled it in and it disappeared." Language like that explains why the late Randall Jarrell described Miss Wilkinson as "the most talented writer of prose I ever taught...
Rosi, in other words, is attacking the Horatio Alger type of matador like Miguelin. Such a matador enters the ring for the first time late in adolescence and proceeds to tailor his style to the crowd. He has not grown up on a bull farm and he has little knowledge of the animal he must fight. Thus when the first wound comes, there is only the threat of the poorhouse to sustain him in the ordeal of his comeback...