Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there any chance of her "doing a Princess Elizabeth?" one reporter asked coyly. "No indication whatever," replied Margaret firmly, adding thoughtfully that she had met several nice young men on the trip. What about the President's recent remark that he preferred grandchildren to a prima donna in the family? Margaret laughed. "I hadn't heard that one," she admitted, "but it sounds just like father...
Next night, at a less active palace reception, Prime Minister Clement Attlee said cheerily to some Tory friends: "We should really have more of these parties." This remark was widely repeated. "The bahstud," muttered one of those who knew that Attlee's government had carried its austerity drive deep into the wedding festivities, by shortening the length and speeding up the pace of the procession, by asking workers to stay at their jobs, and even, at first, by refusing to put the Household Cavalry in full dress. When the Cavalry turned up in full dress in Sir Alexander Korda...
...same reception where Attlee made his well-meant, ill-received remark, Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel) was strolling about, smoking a cigarette in a holder. Princess Margaret came up. Bea, not wanting to curtsy while brandishing a cigarette, stuffed it and the holder into her dress front. At St. James's Palace earlier in the day, while a certain lady of title was viewing the royal wedding presents, the King came up to her and, with a very quizzical expression, said: "A lot of people must have had a lot of very nice things stored away for a very long...
Expanding on this remark, Baldwin digressed to a criticism of American foreign policy on the ground that supporting reactionary governments rather than "middle-of-the-road" forces is a fundamental error that manufactures a previously non-existent Communist threat in those countries...
...felt himself slipping lower and lower for catch pharses. Is it worth the effort? He got an idea. A game. See how stupid a remark can be and still get laughter. He waved a lamb chop at them. I'll tell you, this food is strictly from hunger. No belly laughs but plenty of snickers, Vag noted, amused himself for the first time...