Word: majest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down to lazy majesté, perhaps. Visiting a sheep farm in Argyll, Scotland, Britain's Prince Charles volunteered to shear a sheep with electric clippers as he had been taught as a schoolboy in Australia. As far as the Highland sheep was concerned, the Prince of Wales' approach was definitely non-ewe. It lunged between his legs and left him looking, well, sheepish. Worse, said Charles: "I was really worried about those horns. That sheep nearly ruined the dynasty...
...last week of the continent's only Emperor since the deposition and death of Ethiopia's Haile Selassie. Sweltering in the 100° heat and 90% humidity, the guests, in morning coats and Parisian gowns, struggled to attention as a voice boomed out over the loudspeaker: "Sa Majesté Impériale, I'Empereur Bokassa Premier...
...tremendous sense of humor without being flippant," is one description. Another is: "A typical Wellington, snappy at times but sociable." Oh, well, the British prefer their royals a little naughty, and Lady Jane Wellesley, 22, only daughter of the eighth Duke of Wellington, was seen risking lèese-majesté by shying melons at Prince Charles' head on his recent visit to her parents' Spanish estate. Now Charles, a childhood friend of Jane's, apparently thinks of her as more than just a girl-next-door romance, and so do many of his subjects. When dark...
...Jones seems to know a good deal about kingship but very little about old age. His King Lear at the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park has a certain grandeur in the early portions of the work, a ground base of reasonable outrage over the lèse-majesté of his elder daughters. Yet the eccentricities of age-the sudden frets and pets, the false starts, queer hesitations and erratic humors of senility-are only rarely present...
...wealthiest women, will no doubt provide a dazzling dowry. In addition, Anne, as the fourth in line to the British crown, will get a huge increase in her state allowance upon her marriage -a point that gave Britain's Communist daily an excuse for its lèse-majesté coverage of the engagement. While most of the British press ran streams of type (530 column inches in the Daily Express), the London Morning Star carried two curt sentences: "Princess Anne will get a ?20,000 rise, to ?35,000 a year [$87,500], when her marriage to Lieut...