Word: mumming
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...QUEEN MUM AND QUEEN ELIZABETH According to Burke's Peerage of London, Britain's matriarchs are distant cousins of the Bushes. (The Queen Mother is a 13th cousin once removed from President Bush; the Queen is a 13th cousin twice removed from...
...left a few hours early to make it back to the Israeli-Palestinian summit in time for dinner. Disease, hunger and education in the Third World were formally on the agenda in Japan, but Clinton and other officials were peppered with questions about Camp David. The President generally kept mum, although he did reveal that Barak and Arafat "have not wasted the time" that he was gone. Other administration officials were introduced at press briefings as being "ready to answer all your questions - except about Camp David." Credit the White House with the first traveling, worldwide news blackout...
...Grocers rode camels (a reference to their spice-trading origins) past a smiling Queen Mother at a pageant to help celebrate her upcoming birthday with the kind of eccentricity that makes England one of the world's oddest nations. But unlike the G-8, at least the Queen Mum had something to celebrate. She turns 100 in a few days. Bring on the camels...
...This summer, Darling will be heading back towards the conservative country from which he first emerged for the national convention in Oklahoma. He keeps mum on the issue of whether or not he will seek the NSCL presidency, although he notes that usually the vice president does step up to the office. He would find ample support from all quarters except maybe the Massachusetts contingent. Some of the Mass. SCL officers responded to inquiries about Sterling with "Who's Sterling?" because they frequently feel abandoned by him as he charms his way to national classics domination. But most gush about...
Spring's calling for a riveting game of mothball ping pong. Throw discriminating palates and post-lobotomy brain stems to the wind, sweethearts, because garish is back in. Time to raid mum's closet for a taste of retro ugliness...