Word: stylishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Starch & Gold. Thus began the carefully timed, almost agonizing round of greetings, luncheons, dinners, toasts, receptions, balls, meetings and tours for the royal couple. With scarcely enough time between official functions to change from one stylish dress to another (she never wore the same attire twice), Queen Elizabeth usually managed not to appear exhausted, foot-tired and hand-sore. And Washington, D.C., thrumming with true excitement, turned out with starched dickeys and flowing gowns to do her justice...
...often explosive impatience ("Philip," she is often heard to remonstrate, "don't get so annoyed!") and curbing his quarterdeck vocabulary. By way of return, Philip himself can be credited for the fact that his mousy, slightly frumpy and occasionally frosty bride has blossomed into a self-confidently stylish and often radiantly warm young matron...
...Foreign Service." The man sent to determine the pattern and frame recommendations for U.S. policy is notably suited to do the job. Loy Henderson, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration, one of the U.S.'s "five-star" career diplomats,* has risen during 35 years of quiet, stylish diplomacy to successive new highs of influence and prestige in the State Department, where he is often called "Mr. Foreign Service." His specialties: Soviet Communism and the Middle East...
Lean, tall and well-muscled (5 ft. 10½, 144 Ibs.), Althea Gibson is not the most graceful figure on the courts, and her game is not the most stylish. She is apt to flail with more than the usual frenzy, and she often relies on "auxiliary shots" (e.g., the chop and slice). But her tennis has a champion's unmistakable power and drive. Says Tony Trabert: "She hits the ball hard and plays like a man. She runs and covers the court better than any of the other women." Says Promoter Jack Kramer, who eventually would like...
...dozen novels that comprise his resounding theater, Evelyn Waugh has beaten the stylish stuffing out of a fantastic troupe of highly comic puppets. For his latest book, Waugh has retired momentarily to the wings to inflict upon himself the special punishment of the aging entertainer-a hard, self-appraising look in the dressing-room mirror...