Word: arabella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went smoothly at a rehearsal for the debutantes' benefit fashion show in London, until Arabella Churchill, 17, Randolph's daughter, had to parade onto the runway wearing a silk gown split up the back to reveal its matching pants. "I do not want to show my bottom," snapped Winnie's granddaughter as photographers began shooting the view from the stern. Later, things got even worse when the prankish Duke of Bedford, the show's announcer, peeled off the detachable lower swath of a mink coat Arabella was modeling, leaving her in a sort of mini...
Passing through Washington on his way to a vacation in Barbados, Randolph Churchill, 55, visited at the Capitol with his daughter Arabella, 17, and passed out a few copies of the first volume of his biography of his father, Winston S. Churchill. "It's my only major achievement," Randolph said later...
Machine-Gunning the House. In the area of repertory, Bing's record at the old Met speaks for itself: 50 new productions, three U.S. premieres (Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, Strauss's Arabella, Menotti's The Last Savage), and one world premiere (Barber's Vanessa). His own taste favors Italian opera; he is only lukewarm about Wagner and, with a few exceptions, indifferent to modern. Compared with Milan's La Scala or West Berlin's opera, whose repertories are laced with contemporary works, the Met, as one critic puts it, "remains...
...been 95 years since Iowa's Mrs. Arabella A. Mansfield hung out her shingle as the first licensed woman attorney in the U.S. In that same year, 1869, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Illinois State Bar's refusal to admit Mrs. Myra Bradwell with the observation that "the natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belong to the female sex evidently unfit it for many of the occupations of civil life." Today in the U.S., the woman lawyer lives and works in a society that has long since accepted a Myra Bradwell's right to practice...
This return shipment was made only because the importer wanted the new Arabella model instead of the model Alexander...