Word: montague
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where a family called Heaven once ruled a kingdom of the same name. The islanders still point to the treacherous rocks that surround them and gleefully tell of the time a great galleon of the Spanish Armada went aground, or of where His Majesty's proud new battleship Montagu piled up in 1906. Aside from "bluebottles"-the island's name for tourists-the Lundyites do not like outsiders to get too close...
With its irresistible combination of spur and promise, the U.S. beauty industry has made U.S. women the world's best groomed. "It is well known around the world," says British-born Anthropologist Ashley Montagu, "that American women are the most beautiful-and that they can make themselves even better than they are. The beauty industry is, socially, highly important and desirable. There is certainly a magic transformation performed on women who enter appearing like Mrs. Malaprop and leave as beautifully embellished as Madame Recamier reclining on her chaise longue...
...hifi. The girl is Lady Dalkeith, 26, a former fashion model and daughter of a Scottish barrister. In 1953's flossiest British wedding, attended by Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and 1,600 other guests, she married Margaret's front-running suitor, rangy, redheaded Walter Francis John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, son of the eighth Duke of Buccleuch...
...breast of chicken, green salad, tomato, lettuce, a carrot slice and fried parsley-all on a piece of bread. At least that is the view of Pan American World Airways, which last week was embroiled in a heated metaphysical battle with its European competitors over the nature of Lord Montagu's invention. The International Air Transport Association has agreed that airlines may serve only sandwiches on their new cut-rate transatlantic flights v. free full meals on regular flights. Pan American, which still considers the sandwich a thin layer of filling between two slices of bread, charges that European...
...doctor in this case is Elia Kazan, a well-known specialist in social disorders who made On the Waterfront and Baby Doll and has directed three of Tennessee Williams' plays. Unhappily Kazan does not seem to know the first thing about a satiric operation. As Lady Mary Wortley Montagu explained the technique: "Satire should, like a polished razor keen/ Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen." She also described Kazan's method: "Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews;/ The rage, but not the talent, to abuse...