Word: monarch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...football stories ("from the woman's point of view") for the Oakland, Calif. Tribune. Not long after her husband, Robert John Herwig, an All-America footballer, brought home a book on King Charles II, she decided to write a novel about the reign of Britain's gamiest monarch...
Inside Yugoslavia, the growing Parti san movement more & more took matters into its own hands. If King Peter was not interested in the Partisans, for their part they saw little reason to be interested in their absentee monarch. This feeling in creased when the King made Mihailovich a General and Minister of War. Slowly but surely the Partisan movement became also a resistance movement against the old Government...
...King Alfonso XIII. From his Swiss villa on Lake Geneva, where he will stay until the skiing season opens, the Infante made it known that he was against "totalitarian policies," was "calmly and confidently" waiting for a call to Madrid. He had reason. Britain might right royally welcome a monarch in that bulwark of Empire, Spain...
Officially We Know Nothing. Another Balkan monarch, Bulgaria's seven-year-old King Simeon II, may also owe his tottery throne to the Soviet Union. Said the same official: "Moscow should have informed us of an understanding with Bulgaria. It did not. So, officially, we do not know anything about it. But several indications have come to us, mainly from Ankara, pointing to the probability of the existence of a Soviet-Bulgarian understanding...
...shall you be?" Anna was so angry she replied: "One hundred and fifty years old, Sire." The King coughed, laughed, coughed, said, "In what year were you borned?" When Anna said, "1712," the King asked, "How many years shall you be married?" When Anna replied, "Several years," the monarch thought hard, finally roared out, "How many grandchildren shall you have by now? Ha, ha! How many?" The King had won. It put him in such good humor that he took Anna by the hand and led her to his wives and his 67 children...