Word: brenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after consulting several handbooks (including What Shall We Name the Baby?), Hogan and helpers put out the new 1955 list of hurricane names: Alice, Brenda, Connie. Diane. Edith. Flora, Gladys, Hilda, lone, Janet, Katie, Linda, Martha, Nelly, Orva, Peggy, Queena. Rosa, Stella, Trudy, Ursa, Verna, Wilma, Xenia, Yvonne and Zelda. Only holdover: Alice, used because an out-of-season hurricane arrived before its name was chosen...
...When Miss Gary Latimer, who had been dubbed the "No. 1 Glamour Deb" by New York society editors, appeared, it was like the arrival of a movie queen on the 20th Century Limited: a murmur ran through the crowd, flashbulbs popped, and Miss Latimer smiled like no one since Brenda Diana Duff Frazier...
...once, the eldest daughter (Brenda de Banzie), a spinster of 30 winters, announces that she is going to wed the boothand from the cellar (John Mills), with or without father's permission. When father shows them the door, the two set up a rival shop and soon have most of the old man's business out of his pocket...
...much Laughton leaves the audience feeling that there has been too little Brenda de Banzie and John Mills, who are excellent as the spinster and her workingman suitor...
...bring the necessary luck. Such corporeal visitors as Prince and Princess Alexis Obolensky, Mrs. Winston Guest, Sir Victor Sassoon, Mrs. Bernard Gimbel and Metropolitan Opera Tenor Jussi Bjoerling materialized from amphibians that made 40 nights in and out. Other guests, before and since: Danny Kaye, the Countess of Leicester, Brenda Frazier Kelly. All applauded what the ghost and Wenner-Gren had wrought. Much bucked up, the white-haired financier decided last week to pour another $1,500,000 into Andros Town this year, and as much as $10 million eventually...