Word: princess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does Princess Grace think she is, anyway? Last week in St.-Tropez, Sammy Davis Jr. counted up the snubs he had received in her domain. When he graciously agreed to headline the opening gala of Monte Carlo's posh new Sporting Club, Sammy accepted $30,000 in expenses, plus a specially hired eight-berth yacht. Still, the way he saw it, "I was giving a free performance." Then there was the matter of his arrival. "There was no one to meet me at the airport," he groused, ignoring the Air France director, the pretty girls bearing flowers...
Clark finds support for his view in The Jewels of the Princess of Orange, an advisory opinion written in 1831 by Attorney General Roger Taney, who later became Chief Justice. That ruling involved President Andrew Jackson, who wanted a reluctant U.S. District Attorney to put an end to a case involving the princess's stolen jewels, which had been seized by U.S. customs officials; for diplomatic reasons, Jackson wanted to help the princess get the jewels back quickly. If the district attorney refused to drop the case, wrote Taney, "the prosecution, while he remained in office, would still...
Upstages Headliners. "They all think I'm a freak," says Maggie. But despite the gypsy fortune-teller exterior, Scotland's princess of wails is about as funky as a Girl Scout. Music is her life, Maggie maintains, although she does not disdain the idea of marriage. She cannot pass a child without smiling, and youngsters in return respond to Bell's fresh-faced charm. "The high point of my career," she reflects gravely, "was when I came to the U.S. and found that Americans are allowing single people to adopt babies...
...prince sometimes saves his skin and pushes the plot forward by turning into a succession of wild creatures. Trapped on a cliff, he may become a magpie and fly away. Blocked by a lake, he is transformed into a silver fish who swims under the window of a disconsolate princess in time to catch the golden ring she drops and be turned into a prince again. Somewhat the same sort of trick is managed in this beautifully controlled first novel...
...been lent to him by his mother-in-law for the grueling three-day contest of dressage, show and cross-country jumping. A big gray, Columbus had galloped off with the Whitbread Trophy to the delight of Winner Mark and Owner Queen Elizabeth, and the wifely acquiescence of Princess Anne, who placed fourth in the event. Mark had his defenders, however. Said Dorian Williams, a veteran equestrian and BBC commentator at Badminton: "The horse was pulling like a train throughout...