Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strand ringing a handbell). Fuming as Baron Blackford described the St. James's as "simply an obsolete, Victorian, inconvenient, uncomfortable playhouse with no architectural or historic value," she leaped to declaim: "My lords, I want to protest against St. James's Theatre being demolished!" While their lordships sat in stunned silence at this breach of protocol, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod gravely put the arm on the interloper: "Now you will have to go, Lady Olivier." Said Lady Olivier ruefully after her ejection: "None of the lords moved a muscle. It was what...
Lavish with time (his wife was Josephine Medill Patterson, daughter of the founder of New York's Daily News), Albright tackled the portrait with his customary punctilio. For the first six months, Mrs. Block sat five times a week, two hours a sitting, then came twice a week for the next 18 months. Albright rigged up an ingenious arrangement of black window shades that allowed him to concentrate the eerie light exactly where he wanted it. He brandished up to 25 brushes at a sitting, most of them not much thicker than an eyelash, applied them to a palette...
Ticks & Politics. "The difference between Harry and Norman," says one old-time Angeleno, "is that Harry sat in his office and ruled this city like a king. Norman doesn't rule; he isn't interested in ruling. What he wants is to become an institution." Yet in a town where the Times is one of the few enduring institutions, Norman Chandler knows better than to try to wield an overpowering political club. Today's Los Angeles is too amorphous for one man to rule, one newspaper to command,* or even one political organization to anneal. The Times...
Seldom before had a session of the House of Commons been marked with such quiet expectancy. Like schoolboys ranged in ranks before the headmaster on Prize Day, the members sat, knowing perfectly well what was coming (it had been discussed in smoking rooms and pubs for weeks), but still eager to have the official word spoken. At last, in a lengthy statement uninterrupted by a single sound, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told them what they had all been waiting to hear: every member was to get a raise...
...INNOCENT AMBASSADORS, by Philip Wylie (384 pp.; Rinehart; $4.95), whips around the world with America's most emotional writer. When not gawping at the tourist sights ("I wept as I sat on that bench and looked at the Taj Mahal"), Author Wylie is dazzling the natives with his knowledge of Shinto, his deft handling of chopsticks, his keen analytic mind. Everywhere Wylie trails disasters-Hong Kong was harassed by bubonic plague, Calcutta by cholera, "just after we left"-confounding Communists with his arguments, straightening out the thinking of Asian leaders and U.S. officials. Wylie's heart is obviously...