Word: regents
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Carter, who was driven around London in a tan bulletproof Lincoln, stayed at the heavily guarded Winfield House, the elegant Regent's Park residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Senior members of his staff, like Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal, did not fare nearly so well. Originally booked into Claridge's, the posh hostelry favored by Henry Kissinger, they had to revise their plans. Bent on frugality, Carter decreed that they join the rest of the U.S. party in the more modest Hotel Britannia...
Died. Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, 83, who was expelled from his country in 1941 for courting the Nazis; in Paris. Following the 1934 assassination of King Alexander by Croatian nationalists, Paul became senior regent for eleven-year-old King Peter, his nephew. When his policy of conciliation with Hitler led to a popular military coup, Paul fled Yugoslavia, and Peter commanded an unsuccessful resistance to German occupation. Under British house arrest in Kenya until 1945, Paul lived in exile in Florence and Paris after...
...pearl from the left, which is courtesy of Woolworth's." Other gems are the " 'La Fabiola' Faerie Diamond," the "Royal Order of the Corset" rubies, and the social climber's special-an outsized pendant dubbed "The Fitz-Hall" ("and it does"), featuring France's Regent diamond, now barricaded in the Louvre...
...rituals of the peerage. Heyer's work is peppered with references to laudelets, phaetons, barques of frailty, diamonds of the first water, and vouchers to Almack's. A careful reader is also likely to be familiar with the origin of Lady Sally Jersey's nickname, the Prince Regent's confused marital status, and Lord Petersham's penchant for mixing snuff. Heyer's research into the lifestyle of the peerage may not have produced great sociological tracts, but she certainly knew what the requisite costume for a nuncheon party was, and why Beau Brummel was good ton and Letty Lade...
Richardson asked for time to consider. He returned to his embassy residence in Regent's Park and talked to his wife Anne. Somewhat reluctant to move again and give up her activity with two British singing groups (including a Bach choir), she nevertheless was willing. Richardson tapped longtime associates by telephone. One warned that Ford was unlikely to win another term, so why should Richardson take up a lackluster post like Commerce in a failing Administration? Others advised that Richardson should accept the job to get back into the thick of the political action in Washington. Richardson decided...