Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your report of the British monarch's abdication in your Dec. 21 issue was one of your masterpieces. It was accurate (according to my best information). It was unprejudiced. And I prophesy that history will view the affair with the same perspective you have so ably employed...
...There is some danger," wrote the Archbishop of York, "that regret for the loss of the brilliant qualities and sympathy for a monarch who in critical days was confronted with a most painful choice, may divert our attention from the fact that the occasion for this choice ought never to have arisen. The harm was not done in December or even in October when he announced his intention of marriage to the Prime Minister, but much earlier...
...Year I modestly nominate myself. I am neither monarch, dictator, fuhrer, president or even a deposed king. Nor am I a movie star, postmaster, baseball player, maestro or champion corn husker. I am just an average American Business...
...many to whom he was an impersonal monarch of a distant country he is now enshrined in our hearts with a respect that is akin to worship. No doubt the redoubtable Stanley Baldwin could have condoned a few "backdoor indiscretions." Hail noble Prince, for being true to your principles, the greatest gentleman of them all. The world salutes...
Witticisms, gibes, jokes and epigrams like these, some of which still have currency in the theatre with only superficial changes, are packed by the score into The Country Wife, first produced in London in 1673, when Charles II, the merry monarch of the Restoration, wanted everybody to have a good time and when Dryden fumed at "the steaming ordures of the stage." The Country Wife is generally conceded to be the best of William Wycherley's four major comedies. It holds up dullness as the worst of sins, wit as the greatest virtue. If it preaches anything...