Word: descends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exodus of 100,000 Frenchmen from Morocco and Tunisia is nothing to the problem that will be presented, both to the North Africa they leave and the France they descend on, if the Frenchmen in Algeria-one million strong-de-cide to evacuate North Africa. So far less than 1% have returned to France: the battle of Algeria is still joined, and the French are stubbornly sticking...
When I read in your April 22 issue of the Protestant invasion of Catholic Italy, I wondered why they were there at all. If they are really sincere about spreading Christianity (their form), why don't they descend on Sweden? Now there is a country that probably has the most lax moral standards of any country in the world and a country that is almost exclusively Protestant. But I have an idea that the Swedish people wouldn't take kindly to a swarm of missionaries...
...throne. There is the grand opening of the "Versailles-Hilton" hotel; the Folies-Bergere holds a contest for the official post of "King's Mistress"; and visiting royalty floods the capital ("Ava Gardner and H.S.H. Kelly are in residence"). Two hundred nobles come out of the woodwork and descend on Versailles, all set to eat Pippin out of house and palace. His daughter's American suitor proposes to merchandise the impoverished monarchy ("The Dukedom of Dallas?-why, ten billionaires would be after it"). All goes well as long as Pippin is content to remain wax in the hands...
Five & Dime Scion Lance Reventlow, son of Barbara Hutton and just turned 21, proved himself one of the few contemporary playboys without self-delusions. Announcing that he will soon descend from his new mountaintop eyrie in Beverly Hills to go to Italy and some sports-car racing, well-heeled Driver Reventlow forthrightly justified his indolence: "I guess you might say I'm a playboy. But I like what I'm doing, and I'm never bored like so many people are who work all the time...
...Europeans James told of two elegantly hard-up Continental worldlings-a baroness and her brother-who descend in a fortune-seeking mood on their rich, staid, starched Boston kinfolk. Light, bright, "easy" James, the book is less a comedy of intrigue than of attitudes, of dull innocents shocked by Europe and gay intriguers stupefied by Boston...