Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Port au Prince 10,000 citizens of the hemisphere's only black republic waved palm fronds, danced the meringue to the beat of native drums, and shouted "Down with Lescot-le tyran!" After four days of paralyzing strikes, and fighting in which at least 14 had been killed, the Army had gone over to the revolution and Haiti had a new Government. On the hill overlooking the sail-flecked harbor, the handsome residence of President Elie Lescot lay empty. The President had fled the country. (Early this week he deplaned in Miami...
Sadja Stokowski, 15, finally trailed Father Leopold into print with a picture taken at a yachting party at Palm Beach (see cut). The maestro's second daughter (by Wife No. 2), she threatened to out-glamor Glamor Girl Gloria, Wife...
...nickels in a hands-across-the-border "thank you." Through nine whoppingly successful victory loans, 50 Hollywood stars had toured the Dominion, had made seven film shorts and 37 radio transcriptions. In a gesture of gratitude, Canada took over the pale green sunroom (for cocktails) and the green-paneled Palm Room (for dinner) of the swank Beverly Hills Hotel, exported boyish, popular Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, Dominion ambassador to Washington, as guest speaker. There was also a kilted Scottish bagpiper, and a mouth-watering Canadian dinner presided over by austere John Helders, maître d'hotel sent down...
...overland treks. One capricious clarias batrachus, apparently bored with captivity, jumped out of its bowl, wriggled down two long corridors, was caught high-tailing it out the front door. A Danish scientist named Daldorff once saw a fish leering at him from five feet up an Indian palm tree. The Smithsonian's Smith, admitting that he had never personally seen a fish climb a tree, was sure that it can, and does, happen in Siam...
...World and The Players and The Dutch Treat Clubs. He has long since receded to the blander pleasures of upper-middle-class suburbia in Stamford, Conn, and -with a mild sheepishness about the stylish address, and sincere enough murmurs about the Websters' susceptibility to colds- winters in Palm Beach. For years the Websters were enthusiastic theatergoers; now they wonder whether anything is as much worth coming into town for as the last show they saw, Oklahoma! Webster used to play poker every Friday night through Sunday morning, in a room in the old Waldorf-Astoria. The concentration was such...