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...Sylphides, Mary Ellen Moylan was particularly graceful--she had the quickness of a butterfly. As one man in the midst of many women, Michael Lland appeared relaxed to the point of boredom, but he executed a few grandes jetes with case. Soft, pale green lighting enhanced the ensemble's movements, which, except for occasional bad timing, were precise...
...Winston Churchill had urged Londoners to stay away, and a mere handful of reporters and officials were there to greet her. A black coat hiding her greyish-blue dress (she had taken a black dress with her, but there had been no time to unpack it), her face a pale, wan oval beneath a tight black hat, Elizabeth stood in the door of the plane, looking down at the bared heads of the men who had come to meet her. With a brave half smile, she came quickly down the steps. The black-clad semicircle bowed as one man. Elizabeth...
...Royal Naval College at Osborne. He liked the navy, and the navy's simple life; he ate with relish the traditional bread, cheese and onions-washed down with beer-before turning in at night. He once got himself punished for letting off fireworks in the head. A pale, slim sublieutenant, sometimes doubled up with pains diagnosed much later as an ulcer, he saw action in the Battle of Jutland, where, as "Mr. Johnston," he was second-in-command of "A" turret aboard H.M.S. Collingwood. "The King," remembered Turret Commander W.E.C. Tait years later, "made cocoa as usual...
Nell brought to the feverish, pale-blooded court of Charles a throb of natural England. The tales of her fishwife eloquence in high places made her-in a phrase that was intended as an epithet but became an accolade-"the darling strumpet of the crowd." Once, for instance, she was so proud of her new petticoats that right in the presence of the French ambassador, she lifted them one by one. In line of duty, the Frenchman sat down and wrote a report to his foreign minister back home: "I never in all my life saw such thorough cleanliness, neatness...
...life was now a whole ritual. She lay always awake, before dawn, watching for the grey to colour to pale gold ... But sometimes he came ruddy, like a big shy creature. And sometimes slow and crimson red, with a look of anger, slowly pushing and shouldering ... as he moved behind the wall. (page...