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Soon after U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles stepped off the plane at London Airport, he was whisked off to dinner at No. 10 Downing Street. Over the brandy, Prime Minister Churchill launched into the subject now dearest to his stout old heart: a "parley at the summit." But Dulles was expecting the lecture, and came determined to withstand it. In the words of one dinner guest, Dulles "flatly rejected" the P.M.'s proposal...
...course, daughter beards the lion, and he proves to be a lamb. He gives her his dearest treasure, a telescope, to sell, and sends her off to fame with no further warning than that she should be careful of "people offering girls poisoned candy." In an unpretentious way. the picture is the most charming and essentially laughable of all the modern attempts at describing life with father...
...Ambassador felt free to talk, now that his 19-year-old charge. Crown Prince Akihito, had left the dangers of Paris behind. During the Prince's recent exemplary week in Paris, he attended the opera, strolled along the boulevards, and avoided the Parisian spots dearest to the ambitions of most young...
...dearest little Goody," "Best little Goodykin," "Dearest of all Jeannies," "Lovely Princess," "Lovekin." This is no moonstruck sophomore toasting epistolary marshmallows for his sweetie, but one of the finer minds of the 19th century, Thomas Carlyle, addressing his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle. During some 40 years of turbulent married life, Carlyle gradually diluted these honeyed words with wormwood. As Editor Trudy Bliss's generous sampling of Carlyle's domestic correspondence makes plain, he used confectionery phrases to sugarcoat endless pills packed with personal neuroses...
...talk about your dearest...