Word: lese
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wild-eyed jamboree starring Betty Grable and co-starring the explosive, uneven talents of Writer-Director-Producer Preston Sturges (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek). The show is a running battle between sex and slapstick, which to most right-minded Grable fans will seem an impertinent piece of lese majesty...
...soon intervened. (Nonintervention, said Talleyrand, is "a metaphysical and political term meaning about the same as intervention.") Chief of staff to the commander of France's international brigade was Legionnaire Bazaine. In campaigns which the British minister called "this cannibal war, these two-and-a-half years of lese humanite" Bazaine helped defeat reactionary Don Carlos and save Spain for Queen Isabella. When he led the French to the conquest of Mexico, he became a marshal...
...refusing to do so, buying plants and lines piecemeal instead. By early 1939 the citizens of 14 PUDs in Washington had gone to the polls, but only seven of them voted to use Bonneville power; the others turned it down. Some claimed their own steam plants were cheaper - almost lese majesty in the Columbia River Valley...