Word: englishwoman
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...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...
...admission, Author Faviell had gone to Germany "wanting vengeance," but in Frau Altmann's lined face she saw a quiet human courage that made vengeance seem irrelevant. For the next three years-through a nightmare of cold and hunger, riots, kidnapings and the ever-present Communist pressure-the Englishwoman played guardian angel to the Altmann family...
...Greek winter sunlight, she watches the cruel, stunted life of that bitter land during the civil war, when a whole village could be butchered for a few gold coins, or shrewdly examines a pair of lady relief workers ("It's easy to tell that your friend is an Englishwoman," says one refugee. "She talks to all these people as if they were animals. The sort one is kind...