Word: monarch
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Umberto II of Italy was the latest jobless monarch to eye the U.S. as a tourist. He had a lot of friends there, said he, and it was just a matter of packing...
Umberto II of Italy was the latest jobless monarch to eye the U.S. as a tourist. He had a lot of friends there, said he, and it was just a matter of packing...
Died. Christian X, 76, King of Denmark (and until 1944, Iceland), the Wends and the Goths; of a heart ailment; in Copenhagen. The beloved monarch, Europe's tallest (6 ft. 6 in.-"I know I am too long"), remained in his little country during the war, a virtual prisoner of the occupying Germans, with whom he was coldly, contemptuously uncooperative...
History 5, pre-war baby of the survey courses and currently the fastest growing, has moved into third place in popularity, jumping from 449 to 529. Former perennial monarch, History 1, is now in fourth place with a 513 total, down from its 1933 heyday peak of 828 when College enrollment rarely topped...
...find a way of broadening Greece's rightist Government under Dino Tsaldaris. When Tsaldaris and the centrists refused to compromise, advisers urged the King to intervene. But at this point, "he who does not laugh" was back in character. Said he sadly: "Ohi-no. I am a constitutional monarch. I can do nothing." The civil war continued, the people remained afraid and very hungry...