Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elizabeth visited the university to receive an honorary doctorate of civil law, the "OUDS" (pronounced OWDS-the Oxford University Dramatic Society) produced a masque in her honor. Oxford had not entertained a royal visitor with this traditional Renaissance theatrical since 1636, when Charles I and his Queen Henrietta Maria paid a call*. In sunlit, flower-decked Radcliffe Quadrangle at University College, Elizabeth was ensconced beneath a blue-&-gold canopy while from a swan-shaped chariot (drawn by redheaded twins) Venus and Neptune delivered their welcoming speeches. Beneath the glassy eyes of movie and television cameras, a fully armored St. George...
...gadget was as flashy as a jukebox, and paid off even better. It was called the "Spectro-Chrome." A 1,000-watt bulb was propped up in the back of it, shining through red, yellow, green, blue and violet panes of glass. The instructions that came with the box reflected sunny assurance: it would "measure and restore radioactive and radio-emitive equilibrium by attuned color waves." It would also cure all diseases that man is heir...
...Arab village near Tunis, completed his translation of Hamlet. He learned La Fontaine's fables by heart and later founded a literary review (L'Arche) in liberated Algiers. A stream of bigwigs came to his bedroom-study to pay their respects. Communists in the Algiers Consultative Assembly paid theirs by asking that he be tried and put to death. In the spring of 1945 he returned to Paris...
Petard. In lola, Kans., Painter Arthur L. Barnes put the finishing touches on a "No Parking" sign, later paid a $3 fine for ignoring...
...headmistress sank her profits in the school. Then she borrowed $900,000 on her reputation, in 1931 moved the school into new Georgian buildings on a wooded, 200-acre estate overlooking the Potomac, twelve miles from town. Today there are 186 girls, and most of the debt has been paid...