Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd of 2,000 were also the ambassadors of India, Burma and Ceylon, lesser diplomats of every degree, an eye-filling contingent of Eastern ladies, and a solid phalanx of Washington officials, socialites and curious local farmers. The star attraction was Lieut. General His Highness Saramad-i-Rajahai Hindustan Raj Rajendra Shri Maharajadhiraj Sir Sawai Man Singh Badahur, Maharaja of Jaipur, Rajpramukh of Rajasthan, descendant of the sun gods and a most puissant poloist...
...right to the privacy of his own bedroom. In Andrew Jackson's day, the public had free access to all parts of the White House. According to one account of Jackson's Inauguration Day: "High and low, old and young, black and white, poured in one solid column into this spacious mansion. Here was the corpulent epicure grunting and sweating for breath-the dandy wishing he had no toes-and the office seeker." On Jackson's first Inauguration Day, more than 20,000 people poured in, breaking thousands of dollars worth of furniture and crockery, raiding...
...hunt on his vast estates, to entertain lavishly in his turreted ancestral home, the Chateau de la Verrerie. Dressed in exclusive Dior gowns, his wife was every inch the grande dame, and on occasion, as she accompanied her financier husband on business trips, she helped close many a solid financial deal herself...
...three children. It doesn't take a slide-rule budget to make those payments. Our biggest concern is where our money goes, and the checkbook record satisfies that." The major exception to the new pattern is among the newlyweds, most of whom are trying to make a solid start in life on a comparatively small income, and are eager to make a budget work. They enthusiastically figure out their own budgets; only a few of them seek advice. (Since 1949, the U.S. Government Printing Office has distributed only 35,000 copies of its pamphlet Guiding Family Spending.) But most...
...third release of Columbia's A-for-effort Modern American Music Series contains music by ten composers on five LPs. None of the selections can qualify as a masterpiece, but some of them have a solid enough appeal. String Quartet No. 1, by Russian-born Alexei Haieff (played by the Juilliard Quartet), is a gentle composition that makes the most of the ensemble's wispy, wistful potentialities. The piece is old-fashioned without embarrassment, sometimes uses modern techniques without effort. Sonata for Piano and Percussion is by one of the world's few women composers, Australia-born...