Word: slipper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taken to the King. Hundreds of courtiers and noblemen lay prostrate on the deep red carpet of the palace. The King watched her with his "hard shrewd bird's eyes." He marched up & down in front of her, placing one foot, encased in a golden, gem-encrusted slipper, directly before the other, as if performing some intricate drill. Suddenly he shouted: "How old shall you be?" Anna was so angry she replied: "One hundred and fifty years old, Sire." The King coughed, laughed, coughed, said, "In what year were you borned?" When Anna said, "1712," the King asked...
...Cyril Romanoff's younger brother; in Paris. He was a grandson of Alexander III, next-to-last Czar, and uncle of Britain's beauteous Duchess of Kent. In 1902, gay Duke Boris amused the U.S. public by drinking champagne out of a Chicago chorus girl's slipper...
...bathroom was a miracle of coral, blue, and jade green, with a tub of flush-pink marble. There was also an open fireplace and a small concealed refrigerator for keeping cold her lotions and the Guinness's Stout. . . . Mirrored closets, glass-enclosed shower, a couple of low overstuffed slipper chairs in coral satin, two washbasins, and a telephone. . . . Her husband's eyes searched the magnificence. 'Where...
...fancy skirts may sadden her admirers. But she makes up for that in one high-stepping number which has something of the shock value that might result from watching grandma, in the bloom of her youth, chuck an old rip under the chin with the toe-point of her slipper...
...queen's bed, a beauty salon and finally to the spies' council of war in the salon showroom, where Hope tries to conceal himself by posing as a clothes dummy on a bicycle. His mugging in this perilous situation, marked by vain efforts to regain a dropped slipper and at the same time keep the treacherous bicycle bell quiet, makes a notable addition to the library of Hope classics in hilarity...