Word: storybooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment experienced before by only 52 men and six women in the 1,100-year history of England's throne had come to the fresh-faced yet stately young mistress of Buckingham Palace. In storybook raiment, with a storybook prince by her side, she stepped down to the courtyard and entered a coach of scarlet and gold...
...prim, convent-educated London typist, Pierre-Joël Delaitre was all that a storybook French nobleman should be: tall, educated, tastefully dressed, charming, wealthy. To those who knew him better, he was also mean, hot-tempered, pampered, and a wastrel. Reared in luxury at the 18th century Château de Mainténiac, Pierre was the scourge of the neighborhood-borrowing the tenants' farm horses to race across country, frightening the villagers of nearby Préchâtel by roaring through their marketplace in his racing car. He frittered away a fortune and tried to recoup...
...familiar scat type of clowning to give a gentle, appealing and restrained characterization. Whether he flies a kite, sings to an inchworm, talks to a dog or transforms his thumb into a little girl, Kaye succeeds in conjuring up something of the charm of a child's storybook world: that magical realm of slippered kings, pouting princesses, dragons and serpents, flowers that waltz, and porcelain figures that fall in love...
Allende, in a storybook escape, got out of the country. Two fellow labor leaders were later jailed again and are still in prison...
Switzer's storybook wallop took away some of the brilliance of the pitching battle waged by the Crimson's Pat Groper and Tuft's Dave Lincoln. The two had allowed only one run asperse in the first 12 frames with Groper pitching 11 consecutive scoreless innings after a shaky start. ab p h po a o Smith 6 1 2 1 1 0 Robinson, rf 4 0 1 1 0 0 Johnson 5 0 1 18 1 0 Walsh (C),c 5 1 1 9 0 0 Akillian 4 0 0 2 0 0 AlDonelat...