Word: consorte
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...full red carpet in Paris (see cut). Tulips sprouted from chocolate boxes and gloves in store windows; flags and bunting hung from balconies and windows; cavalry parades, civic receptions and state galas snarled up the already tangled Paris traffic. After three days of it, Juliana and Prince Consort Bernhard flew home, worn out but happy...
...Bamangwato don't object to a white consort and the prospect of half-breed succession," boomed the London Times sternly, "it would not seem to be for the imperial government, pledged before nations to respect equal rights of all races, to overrule them in their own domestic concerns. There, if principle were to prevail over expediency, should be an end of the argument...
Already they prostrate themselves before him in worship. To symbolize his oneness with his bemused subjects, he makes a crippled old woman prisoner his official consort. To cut off his link with the past, he kills his own father, one of his political prisoners. In what Author Warner intends as appropriate irony, a prison cast is rehearsing for a performance of King Lear as the novel's climax approaches ; the end of the play is to be the signal for the Governor's Putsch...
Last week the crown princess and her prince consort looked over their new domain in Washington. Bazy sat down with Editor-in-Chief Frank Waldrop, 43, one of the seven "faithful employees" who sold out to the Colonel after Cissy willed them the paper. She praised him for the way he was running the paper, and persuaded all seven to stay on for the present as hired hands. Cautiously refraining from throwing her 118 Ibs. around right away, Publisher Miller diplomatically announced that she planned to submit some of her columns to Editor Waldrop to "see if they...
...ghost of her mother's neglected lover; a playwright dreams of a creature who, unlike the actress in the role, knows how to play his heroine; a scruple-torn pacifist meets the stern spirit of his strong-willed military ancestor; a young man abandons his girl friend to consort with the ghost of a woman he has never met; two old maids gain a sense of vicarious lawlessness from the ghost of an ancestor who was a smuggler; a woman abandons her fiance to the ghost of a woman he has never known. The best of them, The Beast...