Word: wisher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lire Alfa Romeo sports roadster, the kind that Prince Aly Khan gave to Rita Hayworth. The French Reds sent a chromium-plated racing bicycle. From the Communist Party in Hungary came a red plastic telephone which, instead of sounding a bell, plays the Internationale. And from a well-wisher in North America (Moscow did not name him) came the headdress of an Indian chief, with a salutation hailing Stalin as "the greatest of warriors, honorary chief of all Indian tribes...
...were some eleventh-hour decisions to be made (should they take the crown along?-they decided against it). But at long last everything was packed and ready. Aunts, uncles and cousins gathered to kiss the travelers goodbye and neighbors lined the streets to wave them away. An elderly well-wisher (Poet Laureate John Masefield) had even written a little verse...
...Spain's great painter Francisco José Goya y Lucientes, also known as "the Turbulent," took a more than artistic interest in the beautiful Maria Teresa, Duchess of Alba (so gossip whispered in history's ear), and amused himself by painting her in the nude. A well-wisher tipped off her husband, the 13th Duke of Alba, who flew into a boiling Spanish rage. Gallant Goya had to think fast...
...well-wisher thought he was driving a smart wedge between Fascismo and King, he had another think coming fast. Both in Commons and at Whitehall Britons who know King Victor Emmanuel to be probably the most useless man in Europe made a great fuss. The Foreign Office and the Ministry of Information, which have been closing in on BBC, saw their chance. Tightened last week was Government control of all broadcasts...