Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dispatched former G.O.P. National Chairman Len Hall, now a New York gubernatorial hopeful, to the Brussels World's Fair as presidential representative to Host King Baudouin of the Belgians...
...morning last week, the wooden gates of Copenhagen's grey Amalienborg Palace swung open. Red-jacketed Royal Life Guards sprang smartly to attention as a Rolls-Royce bearing King Frederik IX and his pretty daughter turned slowly into the street. The day belonged to Princess Margrethe...
Unlike her two younger sisters, she developed some unusually serious tastes. All she wanted for Christmas at eleven was a membership in the Royal Society of Ornithology. From her maternal grandfather, King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden, she acquired a love for archaeology, and her royal father's subjects were treated to a succession of press photographs of a dirty-faced young princess earnestly grubbing about on all fours in some muddy excavation. In 1953 the people of Denmark overwhelmingly voted to change the law that, since the first Margrethe, has kept females from the throne...
...Arabs, Moroccans, Tunisians and Spaniards) were not ready on opening day. In the U.S. pavilion one entire exhibit was torn out for being unready. In most pavilions there were similar last-minute crises. But after workmen had performed a herculean overnight cleanup job, Belgium's tall, shy King Baudouin, 27, formally opened the first world's fair anywhere since New York's in 1939. Under grey skies and an umbrella of 50 Belgian air force jets, the bespectacled Baudouin proclaimed in French and Flemish: "The aim of this World's Fair is to create an atmosphere...
...name is John Eyre, producer of the aesthetically if not financially sensible King Lear. Here he is living in an America of monthly payments, You-Auto-Buy-Now, Eisenhower and Lestoil, taking advantage of all that a middle-class world can offer, and, at the same time, maintaining fiercely the values and the pride of an upper class whose world has really ceased to exist...