Word: violet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anglesey. Wales, Lady Megan Lloyd-George, left-leaning Liberal daughter of a famed Liberal father, lost the parliamentary seat she had held for 22 years. But her brother, Gwilym Lloyd-George, styling himself a Liberal Conservative, got elected. ¶ In Colne Valley, Lady Violet Bonham Carter, right-leaning Liberal daughter of another Prime Minister, Asquith, and a friend for whom Churchill himself had campaigned, went down to defeat...
British newspapers were also hot on the trail. To check some tales about Burgess' private life, London's Daily Express dispatched its Hollywood reporter to Friend Christopher Isherwood, novelist (Prater Violet) and onetime parlor pink. "Was he a Communist?" mused Isherwood. "Well, like the rest of us, he was very much in favor of the United Front and Red Spain and so forth ... It meant, don't you see, that we were pretty favorable towards Russia ... I mean, it went without saying. But as far as I know, Guy was never a card-carrying party member...
Nearly all of the twelve oils on display were done since Muccini's marriage last fall to a girl named Leda. Marriage takes money, so Muccini has stopped being "self-unemployed" and started working "almost hard." Hit of the show was his violet-toned portrait of Leda, a study both tender and exact. "I like to paint women," Muccini observes with a frown, "because of the great, curious attraction they have for me." He is little more articulate about his second favorite subject: "The bull attracts me as a theme in that it is always associated with a wall...
...plays of Japan: "The audience once dressed for them as if for a religious service in elaborate ceremonial robes . . . The audience is supposed to know all the plays by heart." Having put the modestly dressed audience on the defensive, the play earned the most appreciative reception of the evening. Violet Lang drew laughs with a number of dryly satirical lines...
Married. John William Maxwell ("Max") Aitken, 40, wartime R.A.F. ace, onetime Tory M.P., son of Britain's No. 1 newspaper tycoon, Lord Beaverbrook; and Violet de Trafford, 24, baronet's daughter; he for the third time, she for the first; in Montego Bay, Jamaica...