Word: wellington
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NICHOLAS THORNDIKE '55. Thorndike is chairman of the Wellington Management Company in Boston...
What are the books that sell 100,000 copies? Mary Queen of Scots, Wellington. What are the hit television films? The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Lord Clark's Civilisation. It's like a museum...
...ends with her dying on her back in a belvedere bathed in moonlight. In between, there is a fair number of sharp performances surrounding her. Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson, who must both be on permanent call for big-budget costume dramas, appear respectively as the Duke of Wellington and King George III, and behave - correctly - as if they had just found themselves in the middle of an elaborate revue...
...house of Hanover, in particular, had a flair of dullness, except when its sons were deranged by porphyria or brandy-and Victoria was one of the few British monarchs to be a wholly singular creature. "She not merely filled the chair. She filled the room," remarked the Duke of Wellington, a man not easily impressed, when he saw her after she had received the news of William IV's death and her own accession to the throne...
...diamonds if you have to keep them in the vault all the time?" Another factor in the diamond's decline is the high quality of man-made gems, which are distinguishable from the real thing only to the loupe-aided eye of a jeweler. One recent shipment of Wellington Counterfeit Diamonds was held up by U.S. Customs inspectors-until its owners could prove that the gems were artificial...