Word: greate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York divorcée whose engagement to another great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria's had just been announced. Her name alone was enough to make Mayfair gasp-it was Mrs. Simpson. This time, however, there was no danger that a romance would rock a throne. Romaine Simpson had no connection with Wally, Duchess of Windsor. Her fiance, handsome David Michael Mountbatten, did not have to ask his cousin George's permission to marry. The Marriage Act makes an exception of the offspring of princesses who marry into foreign families. Milford Haven's royal great-grandmother...
...pound. When his turn to speak came, Winston Churchill peered owlishly over his spectacles and said that the Labor government's policy and makeshift expedients had brought the nation close to bankruptcy. A Laborite heckled: "Sell your horse!" Churchill shot back: "I could sell him* for a great deal more than I paid for him, but I am trying to rise above the profit motive...
...music festival at Aldeburgh. Others flocked to Kensington to mill about the streets outside the bride's own modest third-story flat and to coo at one another over the wonder of this sad-eyed Cinderella who was to marry a king's nephew. So great was the enthusiasm all around that even Henry Honneybun, a bakery driver who had been the earl's batman during the war, got a rousing cheer when he left for the festivities...
...through exports by Italy's hard-working industry. The U.S. had sold him the gold at $35 an ounce (the open market price in Italy is about $50). Gold now backs 17% of Italy's currency. Technically, the difference between gold reserves and dollar reserves is not great, but psychologically Pella's stroke worked. Impressed, the Chamber of Deputies gave the government a two-to-one confidence vote...
...Dozen Ping-Pong Balls. Last spring, the French proclaimed IndoChina's autonomy under the French Union (roughly designed as an equivalent of the British Commonwealth).* They also returned to the Indo-Chinese their plump former Emperor Bao Dai ("The Great Protector...