Word: parasoled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airy stairway in the interior court. Though the offices are to be individually air conditioned, the hollow building is designed to be cool on its own. It is one room deep all around for through ventilation, with a veranda-corridor rimming the interior court. The roof is a wooden parasol. Jalousies with mahogany slats protect the windows from noonday heat and glare. The entire mahogany structure literally comes...
...young girl holding a parasol over Stevenson in your Aug. 20 issue? She's a charmer, as A.E.S. seems to agree...
...shyly confesses that she is the first girl he ever took out. And suddenly, with a luminous sweetness rarely seen on the screen, they are in love, and love transforms them. His sore soul heals like a wound in sunlight, and her shut face bursts open like a merry parasol...
...Cambodia's impetuous young King Norodom Sihanouk entreated his subjects in a surprise broadcast last March, "permit me to leave my gilded cage." With that, he turned over the monarchy's six-tiered parasol to his father, Suramarit. After 14 years on the throne, 32-year-old Sihanouk was convinced that, "If I ever lose this King job, maybe I can go to Hollywood. They like Oriental characters over there, don't they? Maybe I could be a Cambodian Charlie Chan...
Between chukkers, the 35-year-old third maharani* dutifully mopped her sweltering husband with a dry towel, fetched him beer, and shaded him with her bright parasol. Gasped sweating Prince Kumar: "In India, we start our polo games at 5 in the afternoon." Between the humidity and the royalty, hardly anyone noticed the final score of the game, which the Washingtonians won, 10-5. Afterwards the maharaja and his wife and son repaired to a local dairy, where they cooled off over frosted milkshakes...