Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert Lagave's angelic face was his misfortune. Men and women alike seemed unable to keep their hands or affections off him. His rule of life was never to resist an impulse, and he grew up to be nothing but "a pet animal trained to eat from many hands." He was only 23, but since his 18th birthday "had been agonizingly aware that he was growing older." When he fell ill in Paris, a princess offered her villa in Cannes for his convalescence. Instead, Robert chose to go back to his ancestral home in tiny Viridis in the somnolent...
Estelle Winwood recreates delightfully her original fluttery Broadway portrayal of Mme. Constance, the Madwoman of Passy, who keeps an imaginary pet dog and won't open her door unless a caller knocks twice and meows thrice. Maureen Hurley is amusing as the chaste Mlle. Gabrielle, the Madwoman of St. Sulpice, who hears voices in her sewing-machine and hot-water bottle. And Adele Thane brings the vigor of Margaret Rutherford to Mme. Josephine, the Madwoman of La Concorde, who still goes every day to wait for Woodrow Wilson...
...last count numbered 296, mostly British officials. Most everybody on the island speaks Kiswahili and practices Mohammedanism (including the blacks). Overseeing everything is an aged (77) and beloved Sultan, His Highness Seyyid Sir Khalifa bin Harub, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.B.E. (whom God Preserve).* The old Sultan owns three palaces, three pet peacocks and three bright red automobiles...
Good from Fun. Outside the studio Malgesto lives a quiet life with his attractive wife (Nightclub Singer Flor Silvestre), two small children and their pet parrots, baby lamb and two horses. He gets 1,000 fan letters a week, and is quick to put in a good-and powerful-word for good causes. When he introduced a priest who was struggling to raise a tiny church, the building fund was oversubscribed by the next day's mail. Once he put an agonized mother on his program to appeal for the return of her kidnaped child. When she got home...
...state 600 miles into Southern California. After that: more schools (needed: a 32-room schoolhouse each week for the next 15 years), smog research, a system to replace the area's laughably inadequate public transportation muddle, better medical and cultural facilities, and -Norman Chandler's pet project-more than 600 miles of new freeways...