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When it comes to the royal family, the phlegmatic British go all soppy. Newspapers employ droves of columnists to simper publicly over the beauty of small Prince Charles's dimples, to sigh over the elegance of Prince Philip's taste in haberdashery. When the Queen came home a fortnight ago, after six months' absence on her round-the-world tour, the sighs became a gale. Sample from Author Beverley Nichols: "At last she came to the Duke of Edinburgh and those two adorable children. 'I guess those are the four most important people in the world...
...draftsmanship is becoming rigid and frigid in a kind of gift-shoppe stylization. The outbursts of pure energy, though more restrained than in The Three Caballeros, still seem touched with homicidal mania. Nearly every attempt at cuteness, sweetness, tenderness, sublimity, results in one or another kind of painful simper. There is a frequent, unscrupulous alternation between the dreamy shimmer and the bang on the snoot...
...elevator (no electricity) they clattered on two-inch wooden soles up four flights of blue-carpeted stairs, sat down and glorified the gilt chairs in the long showroom. A sprinkling of WACs, a handful of beady-eyed U.S. officers lined the wall. Appraising eyes watched pretty, pert mannequins strut, simper, pirouette...
...their rival sheet, the daily Local News, under Editor Edwin L. McKinstry. Canada's Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir, who has written 51 books under his commoner's name of John Buchan, called them "a terrible weight on my conscience," confessed with a simper that he has written "far, far too many...
...Reidy--Simper a little when you say that crack...