Word: regente
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...nothing in them but they're awfully good. You eat them one at a time." A little girl clutched a large Cellophane-wrapped goody as if it were a doll. Explained her father: "She's never seen so much in her life." In dark, narrow alleys off Regent Street, boys played a game of marbles with rock candy balls, and the winners had a feast...
Spring breezes last week tore the clouds over Britain to shreds. The sun broke through, warming the crocuses in Regent's Park, lighting up the pink almond blossoms in the suburbs, and providing British journalists with a neat symbol. For Britons could bask in a good deal of good news. Austerity was thawing...
...Vera is not much interested, she says, in coming to New York ("too much of a headache"). She would rather be with her husband Harry and three-year-old daughter Virginia at home in Regent's Park, where she still does most of the housework-"anything with my hands, and not much with my brain." Vera's explanation of her success: "I suppose I'm the girl in the street, singing to the man in the street...
...Corroding Drop. When war came, Elizabeth Bowen was 40, a homely-handsome woman with a slight stutter and great charm, married to an executive of the BBC. She and her husband, Alan Cameron, had a tall house facing London's Regent's Park. There, Novelist Bowen sat down deliberately to restudy her Irish background, her English foreground and the lives she knew as they settled into war. The first result was a long book, Bowen's Court, on the history of her family and the estate in Cork that they had owned since Cromwell...
Peter succeeded to the Yugoslav throne in a sudden palace move to avoid ratification of an extremely unpopular pact with Germany which had been pushed by regent Prince Paul. Almost immediately after, Peter fled by plane from the country and has never returned...