Word: monaco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vote, the council went on into its talk anyway, and the minister stalked out. Then the councilors passed a resolution demanding that women be given the right to vote and to run for the council. This was a particularly nasty blow for the Prince. As all Monaco knows. Princess Grace of the American Kellys had just about persuaded him to push through woman suffrage himself. But any action he might now take would seem to be merely a surrender to the council. Throughout the trying week. Rainier kept stonily silent in his pink palace. After all, Monaco was still Monaco...
...only had Princess Grace given birth to a son and heir in March, but Monaco had enjoyed its headiest and gayest season since the war. Yet for His Serene Highness, Prince Rainier III, 35, it was a time of continual vexation. Ever since the new 18-man legislative council took office in January, the prerogatives of Europe's last absolute monarch had come under serious question...
Britain's wealthy, mink-loving Lady Docker, her temper bubbling to a boil, sat in Monaco's overstuffed Hotel de Paris and mulled over the insult: all she wanted was to take her son Lance, 19, to a reception given by Prince Rainier and his Grace to celebrate the baptism of their princeling, Albert-and some palace flunkies had had the nerve to turn Lance away. Crossing her own little Rubicon, Norah Docker seized a paper Monacan flag used as a table decoration and hurled it to the floor. Word of the indignity soon burned the ears...
Under a rainy Riviera sky, the Angers soccer team beat the crack Monaco eleven, 2-0, in a crucial game, but immediately afterwards, Angers' star forward disappeared. Then five of the best Monaco players vanished. All last week reports of missing footballeurs poured in: Lyon lost one player; so did Reims, Saint-Etienne and Nimes; Toulouse lost...
...Eyre with any nationality, for a light red, almost auburn, thatch of hair correctly betrays an Irish back-ground, and a large migration of his mother's Shropshire family traversed western Europe to Bavaria many centuries ago. "One of my family claims we are related to the Rainiers--the Monaco Rainiers--but I think the relationship is a dubious one, very dubious... Yet it is fun when Grace bears yet another child to remark that the family is getting larger all the time...