Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prime goal of U.S. wartime travelers, was busier than ever-and higher priced than ever, like every place else. Bermuda was again only three hours from Manhattan by plane (round trip fare $126), or 72 hours by Furness Withey's 100-passenger ships (roundtrip fare: $80-200). The Monarch of Bermuda would not be sailing again till...
...London last week a modest Scotsman tucked away the symbol of his monarch's deepest gratitude: the Knight Commander's cross of the Royal Victorian Order. Then he went back to work on his ponderous, four-volume Textbook of Ophthalmology...
...would dare to dispute the integrity of the President on any occasion my country's welfare demanded it. ... After all, the President of the United States is neither an absolute monarch nor a descendant of a sun goddess."-Harold Ickes...
...doctor's orders, the little king, who has always run his empire like an absolute monarch, has supposedly retired. Sample behavior in retirement: when he went to the races to relax, he ended up buying a string of race horses...
Died. Maud Potter de Reuter Bennett, 80, Philadelphia-born arbitress of continental elegance; in Paris. She was hostess for and later wife of James Gordon Bennett Jr. in his Paris home, Versailles lodge, Beaulieu villa and on his yacht Lysistrata, journalistic aide to the absolute monarch of the New York Herald, whose feats and beats (most famed: Stanley's "discovery" of Livingstone) made journalistic history...