Word: imperiale
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Opera fans, too, struggle to get to Glyndebourne, but tickets have always been virtually unobtainable. Much of the small house, 40 miles south of London, is presold to corporate and individual sponsors. For these wealthy people, an evening at Glyndebourne is a social rite, a rare chance to behave like...
He made the coalition work, and some of his ablest and most loyal deputies were British. But the two top British generals -- Sir Bernard Montgomery, who commanded the Allied ground forces on D-day, and his boss, Chief of the Imperial General Staff Sir Alan Brooke -- ridiculed Eisenhower and conspired...
Forsaking an imperial retirement, George Bush kicks back
Complaints like one last week from Kentucky Republican Senator Mitch McConnell about Russia's "neo-imperial ambitions" provoke ferocious indignation in Moscow, particularly among those who feel Russia has been left standing penniless and irrelevant at the edge of the world stage. "People are sick of the Puerto Rico-ization...
The imperial treatment was extensive. Though not quite as attentively as the imperial doctor who sniffed the toddler emperor's feces to determine his health in "The Last Emperor," my aunts monitored all my bodily functions.