Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheerful, listened somewhat gloomily. There were breaks in the official routine. One night Elizabeth and Philip danced until dawn in a Parisian boite. One afternoon, they drove to Versailles and (while careful cops hid behind hedges) walked along a lovers' lane in the gardens. Through the gate, a woman called: "Be happy and have many children...
...shoulders, midinettes who buzzed about Elizabeth's elegantly homely clothes, and elderly gentlemen with Legion of Honor rosettes in their frayed buttonholes, silver-topped canes swinging gently in their gloved hands. People broke police barriers, crying "Serrez-moi la main!" (Let me shake your hand). One gouty old woman was perched atop a stepladder which her equally gouty old husband kept from toppling over. "Now she steps out of the car, like a queen," the woman reported. "And the Duke, quel beau gosse!" (what a handsome youngster...
...thousands who went out of their way for a glimpse could clearly explain what attracted them. A red-faced working woman, carrying her shopping bag, had the truest answer. "Look at them," she said. "How young and happy and well-bred they are. C'est du baume pour le coeur-it does your heart good...
...story of his having no dark suit spread fast. Most other Italians had only two suits themselves: one to wear to their jobs; one to putter in. "He's one of us," said a white-collar worker as Romans turned out for the Inauguration Day holiday. Added a woman in a blue apron: "He was never one to take the State's money. He saved the lira. He deserves not to pay rent for seven years...
...tube-a milestone for television as well as for radio. In 1923 a Russian immigrant, Dr. Vladimir K. Zworykin (now an RCA engineer) patented the iconoscope-the tube that changed television from a somewhat mechanical to a purely electronic science. In 1928, a Scot, John Logie Baird, telecast a woman's face from London to the S.S. Berengaria, 1,000 miles out at sea, and in the U.S. fuzzy facsimiles of Felix the Cat were televised. Three years later, in a Montclair, N.J. basement, Dr. Allen B. Du Mont brought forth a workable television receiver. The image was becoming...