Word: lunch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Skipping lunch, he dashed on to open three kindergartens, 19 elementary schools and a trade school. In outlying Xochimilco, to the accompaniment of ancient church bells pealing across the town's Venice-like canals, he opened a flower market and a general market, chatted with pupils in a new elementary school. At sundown, his caravan headed back to Los Pinos and dinner. Ruiz Cortines was plainly weary but well pleased with the day's work: 41 dedications in nine hours and 25 minutes...
...Davenport into a Concerto for Orchestra and One Man. Some rare scenes: a Soviet film of Lenin; an impatient Churchill pouncing up the gangplank of a World War II warship; a silently terrible shot of the British wreckage at Dunkirk; a boyish, 53-year-old General Dwight Eisenhower munching lunch on the floor of Franklin Roosevelt's auto in North Africa. In the next 25 hour-and half-hour weekly installments the same technique and an array of writers will try to capture the times through film essays on specific subjects, e.g., the first rocket missiles, the FBI, Benito...
...husband to the Queen, he has literally brought the world to his wife's door, and opened that door wide on the world itself. Artists, writers, businessmen and even trade unionists who would have been shown the back door in Queen Victoria's day now lunch regularly at Buckingham Palace...
...interrupted a long-winded scientist in the midst of a long lecture, to remark: "That's all very well, but you still haven't found out what makes my bath water gurgle." On another occasion, he snapped at an admiral whose demeanor indicated he had drunk his lunch: "Well, Admiral, what do you think-that is, if you are still capable of thinking...
...press of a royal rift. Elizabeth's subjects, however, were more sensible. Australians were charmed when he talked to wharf laborers, called in small groups of representative citizens for cocktails and dinner and quizzed them on Commonwealth affairs. New Zealanders remember him fondly at a lunch in Christchurch, breaking into the speeches in his own honor to propose a toast to the mayor, who, Philip had discovered, was celebrating his wedding anniversary, remember still more fondly a reveler shouting a last farewell as the royal yacht left the wharf: "See you later, alligator." Amid the hushed silence from officialdom...