Word: regaling
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...high plains of Peru, but in many ways Pat Nixon as First Lady was even more of an enigma than her husband. She was a profoundly private woman whose true feelings were known only to herself. To the world, she was the perfect presidential wife, tireless, modestly chic, coolly regal. To her family, she was the ultimate support, so accustomed to smiling through adversity that it became routine. When she was a girl, she once said, "life was sort of sad, so I tried to cheer everybody up. I learned to be that kind of person...
...rolling prairies and in the regal valleys of Wyoming, where there are more cattle (1.4 million) than people (332,000), the standard headgear has long been the ten-gallon Stetson favored by ranch hands. But the Stetsons are now being joined by an increasing number of hard hats worn by coal miners, oil roughnecks, geologists and engineers...
Perón fled, first to Paraguay and then to other Latin American countries. He finally settled in Spain in 1960. There he lived in a $500,000 villa. Despite rumors that he had sacked Argentina's treasury, Perón's apologists insisted that his supporters bankrolled his regal lifestyle in exile...
...does well with it whenever she relaxes and stops pushing, stops acting. A lot of her scenes are meant to be played big, however, and for these Dunaway unpacks her standard characterization of a carry-out Blanche Dubois. The widow should have the insulated look that money brings, a regal air that is also frightened. Dunaway is closer to another character Chandler once described in The High Window: "From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away...
...even though Harvard abruptly exited the festivities after a couple of quick dances with the regal competition in Omaha, no one can really fault the Crimson because it couldn't jam its feet into championship slippers. Harvard baseball '73 was a great story--the stuff that fairy tales are made...