Word: moppets
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...late Philanthropist Adele R. Levy, the layout includes a grass-covered amphitheater, a pyramid and some handsome free-form sculptures designed to tempt the clambering young. But by the time the park engineers, the evaluators, the experts and the mayor are through with the plans, many a moppet may well have hair gone grey at the temples...
...Daddy is a painter, and if the reader finds him not so delightful as his daughter does, that, too, is as it should be. No one could. And surely all hearts will echo to the anti-school manifesto Antonia puts in her private book (known to this precocious moppet as her "escapism book"): "IT'S NOT FAIR IT'S NOT FAIR IT'S ALL A BIG NIDDLE...
...Manhattan. Son of a Belgian painter and a Bavarian brewer's daughter. Bemelmans worked as a hotel waiter, opened his own restaurant, became a bon vivant and peopled his books and canvases with epileptic Ecuadorian generals, French jewel thieves. American ladies in feather boas, and a Parisian moppet named Madeline. "The purpose of art," he once said, "is to console and amuse-myself, and, I hope, others...
Social Tips. Like Sister Jackie, shy, chic Lee Radziwill devotes as much time as she can to her children. In her first and last ceremonial public appearance-to open Chelsea's annual antiques fair-she was so jittery that she bumped heads with the curtsying moppet who presented her a bouquet of flowers, returned to her seat and sat on the bouquet. Like Jackie Kennedy, too. she has had a fling at journalism, notably last July, when she was barred from a private, nonpress showing by Couturier Hubert de Givenchy after it was learned that she was covering...
Stowaway in the Sky will enchant moppet, matron and greybeard with its bal-loonist's-eye view of the fair land of France...