Word: violet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Washington's Episcopal-run Beauvoir El ementary School incorporates a dose of natural theology in its kindergarten prayer : Great grey elephant, little yellow bee; Tiny purple violet, big tall tree; Red and white sailboat on a blue...
...chauffeur sitting up front." The other girls grin. "Really? And where do you meet?" "Oh," says Sophie grandly, "he's taken a flat for us." The enemy closes in. "Ha! You expect us to believe that? What's the address?" Sophie is superb. "Number Six, Place Violet," she announces with a shrug...
...show." But the 70-odd correspondents with her paid no heed. Whether she wore a Cassini evening dress or a Tassell gown-all duly recorded by reporters-Jackie shone even among the colorful saris of the Indian women around her. When she slipped off her shoes and put on violet velvet slippers to visit the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, Chicago Daily News Correspondent Keyes Beech was quick to peek inside the shoes, triumphantly cabled home: "I can state with absolute authority that she wears 10A and not 10AA." So clothes-conscious were the newsmen that they even asked U.S. Ambassador...
When Isherwood's next important book appeared in 1945-it was Prater Violet, a short satirical novel about film-making in London-it did nothing to damage its author's reputation but also did little to fulfill his promise. An unsuccessful novel called The World in the Evening followed in 1954. But the elegant dactyls remained on the literary scene. Their possessor had moved to Southern California in 1939. There he taught, wrote film scripts that seldom saw celluloid, and set aside left-wing politics to dabble in Vedanta-living, as Alfred Kazin once remarked acidly...
...cold spring: the violet was flawed on the lawn...