Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prince Nawaf signed copies of the school yearbook for bobby-soxers, shook hands all around. Said 15-year-old Stephane Schafer afterwards: "My parents are Zionists. My mother belongs to Hadassah. But I'm awfully glad I met the Prince." A high-school journalist asked the interpreter: "Does he like school?" The interpreter replied: "He says, 'It's the best thing...
...sent the old special delicacies to their emigrant families in the new world. For everyone knew that though America was great and incredibly well fed, it just couldn't produce the kind of salami that brought tears to your eyes and fire to your palate-the kind that mother used to make...
...Pakistan and Hindu India, minority groups wondered what to do. A Moslem tonga (two-wheeled carriage) driver, who had lived 20 years in Delhi, thought of moving to the Punjab. "I will wait and see what happens," he said. "If there is any trouble, I will send for my mother, my sister and my two buffalo, on my farm in the United Provinces." But it would cost him $50 to move to the Punjab-and the meager amount he collects in fares barely pays for food on the black market. Besides, he was still paying off a $200 debt incurred...
...great capital of art. To Orozco this meant turning Mexico City into a tourist trap. The three rewrote Manifesto II more than 15 times before publishing it last week. Then Diego Rivera read it to Mexico's arty intellectuals, solemnly gathered at the home of Siqueiros' mother-in-law, after which sympathetic younger painters added a few words of their own. Excerpts: "Once America reflected movements in European art 25 years afterwards; now it is Europe that reflects us 25 years later. . . . Modern Paris art has entered a vicious circle, walking around & around like a mule...
...Majesty Queen Mary," said the exhibition catalogue, "may be regarded by collectors as their Patron Saint and the Great Hall at Grosvenor House as their temple." The Queen Mother was sponsoring Britain's first Antique Dealers' Fair since 1938. And Queen Elizabeth had sent along four fine old tureens-in the form of a cabbage, a melon, a lemon, and a bunch of asparagus-to crown the show...