Word: seale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris' church of St.-Roch, where Father Martin's choir first performed it, found it "even more beautiful and imposing . . . Perhaps the foreign visitors . . . were able to feel what the Kingdom of France once meant." The Nouvelles Litteraires' Jean Wenger found the mass "marked with the seal of the 17th century, so fertile in its greatness." All in all, France felt proud of a glorious relic of its past-until the bubble burst, two weeks later. The mass, Musicologist Felix Raugel harrumphed to his astounded colleagues, was a fraud and a hoax...
When summer comes, the Jacksons turn on the air conditioning and seal themselves in their house, with occasional trips to the immense swimming pool at the nearby Hubara Club. "We go to Kuwait once a week," Mrs. Jackson says. "There's a store called Jolly Brothers where we can get Campbell's soup, American coffee, peanut butter, jelly and saltine crackers...
...Bottle of Beer. Moving on to the diplomatic reception room, Truman explained that the presidential seal over the door had been moved from the floor of the main hall upstairs; he thought it was wrong for people to walk on it. Incidentally, he added, this is one of the old seals with the eagle looking the wrong way, to its left. The mistake originated years ago, he explained, and was continued until he had it fixed in 1945. Since then, by executive order, the eagle in presidential seals has faced to its right...
Trygve Lie's staff gave up. Retreating in all directions, they said that the report was just preliminary anyway, took the U.N. seal from it, and stopped its circulation...
...gave Canada a master plan for cultural development (TIME, June 18). "We are the more Canadian for being British," Massey once wrote. At times, his icy dignity and faultless manners have amazed even the English. Lord Cranborne, now the Marquess of Salisbury and Winston Churchill's Lord Privy Seal, once observed "Fine chap, Vincent, but he does make one feel a bit of a savage." Massey unbends rarely, although close friends who have seen him at charades rate him a better natural actor than his younger brother Raymond, long a U.S. stage and screen star...