Word: regal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sheraton banquet table, and when it took a staff of 14 to keep up the house and 18 in the garden. The owner was John S. Phipps, whose father had made a fortune with Andrew Carnegie, and who had built for himself in Old Westbury, L.I., a regal private park for quiet ponds and hemlock hedges. Last week the "guests" were the paying kind who had come to see one of the most delightful art exhibits of the summer...
...Elsa because it reminded her of a friend (not presumably Elsa Maxwell, the social lion tamer), and is quite formidable in her own way-one of those dauntless dames of the British Empire able to treat the fauna of 120,000 square miles of African semidesert with the regal confidence of a Scarsdale matron patting into place the play patterns of her daughter's age group. Only such a woman would speak of the gruesome noises outside the camp at night as the "chuckles" of a hyena...
...jinx that has haunted the wedding was not to be downed. Despite the palace's best efforts, the image of Margaret that dominated Britain's front pages last week was a preview of a gaunt-cheeked bronze by the late Sir Jacob Epstein. "Hardly regal," grumbled the Daily Telegraph of the scrawny figure. "The princess resembles a badly groomed suburban young woman, her hands roughened at the kitchen sink, about to pick up a tray," wrote the Daily Mail. Then Madame Tussaud's put on view a waxworks figure of Tony Armstrong-Jones in a hands-behind...
...Senator William Benton lost their wallets to pickpockets. At a bullfight, where Stevenson was cheered the loudest, Matadors Luis Miguel Dominguín and Pepe Caceres dedicated their bulls to him. At a cocktail party Stevenson charmed the guests by bringing along Dominguín. Gushed one regal lady: ''Mr. Stevenson, when you get into the White House, will you please invite...
...child's sharply inclined head looks like an immense light bulb with umbrellas for filament, moved Diamond to a softly lyrical, dreamlike sequence in the strings, interrupted by brassy but tentative dissonances and finally fading limply into silence. The Black Prince, which consists principally of a juttingly regal nose and two moon-sized eyes surmounted by a crown, opened with somber, wispy cries of woodwinds and horns, gave way to impetuously flourishing passages in the brasses, died in a melancholy twitter of strings. Less fanciful than the Schuller works, Diamond's "pictures" were ultimately more moving and closer...