Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duchess Charlotte rarely ever mingles with her guests; at the receptions in her toylike palace, she prefers to remain secluded in a small side room. Last week Luxembourg, whose national motto is Mir welle bleiwe wat mir sin (We want to stay as we are), suspected that its social life, at least, would not long bleiwe as it was. For Mrs. Perle Mesta, famed Washington hostess and new U.S. minister to the Grand-Duchy, arrived with plump aplomb, and her ideas of a good party were known to differ from those held in Luxembourg...
...under to the rebellious flock, had referred the matter to Rome. The stubborn Affricans were considering an appeal to the Pope. Said one sharecropper, who is nominally a Communist but whose ideological reliability is subject to grave doubts: "Don Giorgio has been good to our children and risked his life for us. In him we have faith...
Sexpert Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey pushed ahead the frontiers of education. On a month's visit to San Quentin prison to gather data on sex life in jail, he helped pass the time by lecturing the inmates on sex life outside...
Margaret Truman, who even at champagne parties prefers ginger ale or fruit juice, got her reward: a paid-up life membership in the W.C.T.U...
...England, Van Dyck had everything, but like King Charles, he couldn't keep it. The elegant night life wore him down; the importunities of such lovely mistresses as Margaret Lemon (who once tried to stab his painting hand) exhausted him. At 40, Van Dyck left England to Cromwell's Roundheads, returned to Antwerp. He had hopes of becoming Rubens' successor in the field of mythological and religious painting, but within three years he died. Had he lived longer, the crackerjack art student, playboy and plaything of society might have known disappointment ; big things were...