Word: marquisate
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The Best Bit of Paper. The old Marquis de Lafayette, friend of freedom and hero of the American Revolution, hailed the Monroe declaration as"the best little bit of paper that God had ever permitted any man to give to the world." But most European reaction was hostile. Prince Metternich...
In Mr. Dietz's translation, which the program asserts is the official Metropolitan opera translation, the brother-sister ensemblebecomes "Happy Days"-no longer the intricate abandonment of social decorum for an evening of fun, but a sentimental lyric saved from being maudlin only by the power of the music. The...
Died. General Count Jacques Aldebert de Chambrun, 89, stalwart servant of two nations, an honorary U.S. citizen by virtue of his direct descent from the Marquis de Lafayette, a Sahara-seasoned French soldier who aided the A.E.F. by serving on General Pershing's staff, in World War II kept...
By now, though the election is still seven months away, much of the press is already talking of Nixon as a potential loser. Columnist Marquis Childs of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently compared Nixon to Thomas E. Dewey as a man with a losing habit.
Ever since Nureev defected while in Paris with the Kirov Ballet (TIME, June 23, 1961) and began to be hailed there as a major star in his performances with the Marquis de Cuevas Ballet, balletomanes have dreamed of a Nureev-Fonteyn partnership. Nureev, 24, comes from a Ural peasant family...