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...Bliss. One of the largest Georgian estates in the District of Columbia, Dumbarton Oaks, built in 1800, possesses an orangery, a brook with miniature water falls, a yew walk, swimming pool, tennis courts and an old fashioned water wheel. The American Guide Series describes the house as having the "regal air of an 18th Century chateau...
...sometimes Grandmama came to visit. She was regal and beautiful. She told little Beatrix wonderful stories of her youth-about the adorer who had first written her a beautiful poem, beginning "Sweet harp of Lune Villa!" and then drowned himself in the lily-pond (some said he only tripped and fell in), and about another adorer who was unfortunately "quite a common man. My mother directed the footman to put him under the pump." Grandmama never knew that the little girl, under cover of drawing butterflies, was recording every word in self-made shorthand, written in a script so tiny...
...born-&-bred son of a Syrian importer made egg beaters, clothes hangers, and lids for syrup and cream pitchers. His father and brother were experimenting with toiletries for men, and it was Bill who got the golden idea that packaging was all-important. He dressed the Nassaur elixirs in regal flagons of porcelain and richly colored glass, introduced them in 1937 through tony shops and department stores...
...willful, half-barbaric King yearns to improve himself and his backward country-but without once relaxing his regal prerogatives. Nor does he wish to accept too much help from someone who is not only a foreigner but also a lowly woman. To hold and secure her job, Anna has to perform daily miracles of common sense, dignity, humor, forbearance and strength of character. As played by Irene Dunne and Britain's Rex Harrison (in his first Hollywood movie), the clash of these two kinetic personalities should be more fun for an adult audience than the standard maneuverings toward...
Then he summoned newsmen to his regal Chicago headquarters...