Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...times, presented the world with the first pictures of Princess Elizabeth's second-born, Princess Anne. Like any other one-month-old, the young princess went through most of the ordeal either crying or looking bored, but Photographer Beaton reported that she did smile once, displaying a perfect set of pink gums...
...week. Not particularly expecting to be quoted, Ted popped: "The trouble with Mr. Larsen is he is too stupid to realize how lucky he was [to win the Nationals]." Ted went on: "Larsen not only has never beaten me [in four matches], but he has yet to take one set from...
When he saw the story, Schroeder was as startled as Larsen, but he made no apologies. When the two met in their semifinal match Larsen promptly made Ted swallow a few of his words by taking the first set, 6-4, the second, 6-3. Ted could not get his big serve banging in, and Larsen's deftly angled net shots were leaving him frozen-footed...
...with a wet baseball for six innings trying to keep his sweeping curve under control. He succeeded well enough: not a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates, including Slugger Ralph Kiner, had managed to cross the plate. Maglie had little more than an inning to go to break the record set by Hubbell...
Sandwiched between the brash novelties and love-dove schmalz on the bestseller lists last week was a prayer set to music. Its composer was no professional songwriter. She was a 42-year-old Cincinnati housewife named Gladys Gollahon, wife of a bus driver and mother of three children. Her song, Our Lady of Fatima, was the more-or-less accidental result of her own prayers...