Word: englishwoman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guilt & Innocence. Among the thousands of refugees from the Soviet terror was a 68-year-old Englishwoman whom rebels had released from seven years' solitary confinement in a 4 ft. 6 in. wide, fungus-ridden AVH cell. Said onetime lecturer and translator Dr. Edith Bone: "I was a 'secret prisoner.' No one in the world knew about me except the secret police. There are many thousands, perhaps millions, living, rotting like that in Iron Curtain countries." Explained Dr. Bone: "I was innocent [of the charge of being a British spy] but I was also guilty...
...Holy Grail-which Sir Lancelot glimpsed for one transcendent instant, which the pure knight, Sir Galahad, and simple Sir Percival sought and found-may now be reposing in the strong room of Lloyd's Bank in Aberystwyth, Wales. It will soon be turned over to a vivacious blonde Englishwoman named Mrs. James Mirylees...
...have to buy one," he said. "I haven't worn a topper since last St. Patrick's Day parade." At a luncheon a few days later, Wagner was properly turned out in formal dress and a rented top hat. "That morning coat," murmured a passing Englishwoman. "It was my father's," the mayor explained...
...will have a fair strudel. If you beat it 100 times, you will have a good strudel. But if you beat it 101 times, you will have a superb strudel." Dione Lucas ought to know. Born in Italy, raised in France, she is a handsome, 46-year-old Englishwoman whose lifelong love affair with the fine art of cooking be gan at 16 in the kitchen of one of the best restaurants in Paris. Today she is easily the best and most authentic thing of her kind on TV, is seen on film in about 60 U.S. cities and "live...
...ENGLISH YEAR, by Nan Fairbrother, stood quietly alone in its class, the charming, finely written memoir of an Englishwoman's life in the country, with her children, the sights and sounds of nature and her own musings...