Word: princess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hussein is also free to indulge in old pastimes. The King, an accomplished pilot, recently tried out the controls of the first Boeing 707 jet acquired by Royal Jordanian Airlines. He water-skis at Aqaba, tools around on a shiny motorcycle, and sends Princess Muna off every few months to refurbish her wardrobe in Paris and London. With the fedayeen defanged, he is preoccupied with international rather than domestic problems, most notably the Arab-Israeli conflict. In recent months, the world's attention has focused on efforts to achieve an Egyptian-Israeli accommodation over the Suez Canal. Such...
...Frank Sinatra, in excellent voice, making his farewell appearance-singing the songs he made famous and ending quietly with a "saloon song" called Angel Eyes. He barely whispered the last line, " 'Scuse me while I disappear," as the lights faded, and he did. Highlight No. 2: Princess Grace of Monaco, patroness of the evening, introduced by a nervous Gary Grant, her onetime leading man. Highlight No. 3: Pearl Bailey hamming it up in her Hello, Dolly! number with what may have been the highest priced male chorus line of all time: Sammy Davis Jr., Rock Hudson, Jack Lemmon, Greg...
...Beautiful People's Beauty Book, Princess Luciana Pignatelli
...till death do us part, according to God's holy ordinance." Despite the escapades of its founder. King Henry VIII, the Church of England has always taken those venerable words of the wedding service literally. The Anglican stand against divorce cost the Duke of Windsor his throne and Princess Margaret her first love. Peter Townsend. The same rule holds for the Episcopal Church in the U.S., and the late Bishop James A. Pike quit the church because it refused to sanction his third marriage...
...vernacular form of (Mary) Magdalene, usually pictured weeping: Jules Leotard was a 19th century trapeze artist; mausoleum derives from the tomb of "the wily satrap" Mausolus, in Turkey; and tawdry comes from the cheap souvenirs sold at the shrine of a 7th century Anglo-Saxon princess who was called St. Audrey...