Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guess What Happened? (Thurs.8:30 p.m., NBC). Debut of a panel show aimed at discovering what big news stories some plain citizens have helped to make; with Moderator John Cameron Swayze, Comic Roger Price, Humorist H. Allen Smith...
Whether or not she had snubbed Gerry, the Queen was neither ill nor standoffish two days later when some 7,000 guests swarmed over Buckingham Palace grounds for a garden party. Peers and plain people, a Maltese Boy Scout, a Sikh naval officer, the president of the Mormon Church, a pink-trousered lady from Pakistan and a bearded artist in a bright green suit were just a few of those among whom the Queen strolled, chatting pleasantly and shaking hands at an average of once every 15 seconds. Even a downpour of rain which sent many guests scuttling into...
...southwestern end of the trail has not yet been found. The known section ends near the Thames at Pangbourne, Berkshire, and it points southwest toward Salisbury Plain and the great ancient ruin of Stonehenge. Perhaps the Stonehenge people built their megalithic temple, like Pope Gregory built his churches, on a still more ancient circle of hallowed pudding stones...
...Page), or she might try an echo chamber background (like Peggy Lee). But gimmicks were not Georgia Gibbs's cup of tea. She had a big, old-fashioned voice, a good ear, a vivacious personality, and she knew how to sing from the shoulder. She would stick with plain Georgia Gibbs...
...harmonies of color, e.g., the whites of clamshells, the browns of crabs. Each is an experiment in style and technique. In a painting called Dew, he set pastel droplets on a gauzelike spiderweb; in another, he suspended a flowering atomic symbol over an enormous egg standing on an infinite plain. New England approves of Cox's experiments. Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, which buys little contemporary art, has a Cox "basic," and several pieces in his current exhibit have already been spoken...