Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difference. Look at the Duke and Duchess-she's a few years older than he is,* and they're a divine couple." After the wedding, glitter returned to Mother's life; she quit the dress shop, rented a penthouse in Paris. Meanwhile, at home in Palm Beach, Bob Sweeny began spending more time on golf, less around the house. Despite the birth of two daughters and the gay social life, Society Matron Joanne soon felt "as if I had been missing out on life." She agonized over her diet, sought new companionship on the gaudier fringes...
Under a molten summer sun, a portly figure in a Palm Beach suit set out from his seaside estate one morning last week for a constitutional along Ciudad Trujillo's palm-lined George Washington Avenue. Pedestrians were herded aside, but cars rolled by unmolested just a few yards away. Only a handful of aides guarded Generalissimo Doctor Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, 65, Benefactor of the Fatherland, Genius of Peace, etc., etc., etc., as he strolled confidently along. In the dictator's island fief, poincianas were blooming, sugar cane was growing, business was booming...
...calm, sunny afternoon in Algiers the terrace cafés were filled with shirt-sleeved apéritif drinkers, and families lingered in the palm-shaded parks. At the Casino de la Corniche, perched on a cliff overlooking the blue Mediterranean, teenagers danced to the rhythms of Lucky Starways and his orchestra. In a nightmare of sudden sight and sound-a shattering blast, the music stopped in midflight, the thunder of a heavy explosion -the peaceful picture was erased. It was a time bomb under the orchestra platform. In a flash the tea danqe became a scene of death...
...motorcade that resembled a Roman triumph crossed with a Mack Sennett chase, the sultan followed his soldiers. Reporter James Morris, then with the London Times, was at his side. Morris camps his story at the oases of human interest, from Mohammed's legendary prayer ("Honor your aunt, the palm, which was made of the same clay as Adam") to vignettes of Arabs setting their watches by the sun and "sweetening" their beards with incense. There is still only one God and that is Allah, but oil is profit, and Author Morris is happy that he saw Muscat and Oman...
...friend once wrote him: "You have translated Master Rudyard Kipling into music." For long, palmy decades, the world heard Elgar's brassy paddles chunking from Rangoon to Mandalay to Aldershot. When the trooper was on the tide, my boys, or when Tommy Atkins returned from defending dominion over palm and pine, or simply when the poor little street-bred people clustered around the bandstand at Brighton, Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance must ring out. Yet for all its imperial bombast, Elgar's best known composition also conveyed a sort of sweet innocence; compared to some...