Word: consorted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eighteenth Century Recorder Music (The Recorder Consort; Classic Editions). Charming, lively chamber works by Alessandro Scarlatti, Jean-Baptiste Loeillet (1680-1730), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) and Bach, proving that the flutelike recorder, usually belittled as an amateur's instrument, can be as stimulating a voice as any woodwind...
...biggest member is Canada, which was also the pacesetter in the step-by-step process of converting colonies into nations. Last week, in the most characteristic ruling gesture she can make, Elizabeth II, accompanied by her consort and a retinue of 31 ladies, maids and retainers, began an exhaustive, exhausting Canadian tour to show herself as the Commonwealth's cohesive symbol not only to the leaders but especially to the plain people of Canada...
...Both are great-great-grandchildren of German Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, husband and consort of Queen Victoria. Victoria herself was a descendant of the Hanover Georges. Elizabeth's grandmother, the late Queen Mary, was the daughter of the German Duke of Teck. Philip's maternal grandfather was German Prince Louis of Battenberg, who Anglicized his name to Mountbatten...
...absences, with "the prerogative of mercy and granting amnesty" and, when Parliament is not sitting, of calling the nation to arms against any foreign invader. But beyond learning her official duties and finishing her education, her chief worry during the next years will be to find a suitable consort. At a ball last fall, the royal court thought for a moment that she might have found one when she insisted on dancing every waltz with a handsome teen-aged count. Unhappily, the waltzing gave the dashing count a most undashing nosebleed, and by the time he finished out the evening...
...known. In T.R.'s second term the world stage was vaster than the Caribbean. World powers were in the mood for adventures. Secret treaties were being signed. The adolescent machine gun would cause untold loss of life. So T.R. began to move his ships and his diplomats in consort to try to head off history's first world war. Said T.R.: "I never take a step in foreign policy unless I am assured that I shall be able eventually to carry out my will by force...