Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that in comparison with feudal lords and warriors, businessmen have been humane. They have robbed widows & orphans and sold rotten ships to their governments from the Punic to the Civil War, but they have not burned rival salesmen at the stake. A maniac might get to be a monarch, she says, but he could never run a factory. The gist of her argument is that businessmen's great failure has been their inability to develop a goal that would dignify their ceaseless struggles. Men of calculation, wielding great power, performing gigantic feats of organization and administration, their history should...
...than for Germany to feel there had been a clear-cut "Red" victory in Spain, or for France to feel there had been a clear-cut "Fascist" victory; that instead compromise-the traditional British virtue-must ultimately triumph in Spain, preferably by setting up a democracy under a constitutional monarch, with due respect for every man's property and religion...
...with adherents of Premier Nahas and the Wafdists. At week's end both combatants were stubbornly holding out on a decision as 11,000 pro-Farouk students at El-Azhar university, chief Moslem theological school, went on a mass sit-down strike to back up the young monarch...
...walled, moat-bound Colonial Charles Town (named for the Restoration's merry monarch) in the Province of Carolina there came in 1733 a group of strolling players led by an efficient, talented actress remembered only as Monimia, the character she played for the eager Colonists in Otway's The Orphan, or The Unhappy Marriage. Interest in Monimia's muse was far greater than Charles Town's court house could accommodate, even at 40s. a head...
...Tsarist police and for Nihilists, reported on each to the other and had to maintain card files to keep his machinations straight); represents the fun-loving, light-witted Alfonso XIII of Spain (chiefly notable during his reign for his gambols on the Riviera, his gambling at Deauville) as a monarch "cool, determined . . . dauntless," generally much misunderstood...