Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back in Paris sobersided Le Monde sadly warned: "France has no chance of playing the role she legitimately claims in the world as long as this wound of Algeria is open on her side. Frenchmen will not have to wait very much longer to find out if the monarch to whom they confided their destiny at a critical time has really been able to change the course of history or if . . . like so many others, he has only put off the inevitable day of reckoning...
Everyone Rises. The Shah's father, known to his subjects as Reza Shah, was an old-style, absolute monarch who rose from noncom to colonel to King, overthrowing Iran's slack-chinned, 130-year-old Qajar dynasty by force of arms. A wiry, hot-tempered martinet, the old Shah set out to manhandle Iran into the mod ern world, and he did not mind machine-gunning obstreperous peasants to do it. He abolished the veil, and when a Moslem imam criticized the Queen for not wearing one, roared up to the mosque in a convoy of armored cars...
...Merry Monarch, by Hesketh Pearson...
...Merry Monarch, by Hesketh Pearson...
...Parliament or thunder at it, and gain his ends by either device. His lack of vindictiveness was astonishing; of the calumnies of Lord Shaftesbury, the Whig leader who had hoped to execute him, the King remarked merely that "at doomsday we shall see whose arse is blackest." The monarch died in 1685, surrounded at first by musicians and concubines, and at the end by clerics and physicians. He was succeeded by his brother, James II, whom Nell called "dismal Jimmy," and of whom Charles had observed that his mistresses were so ugly that his priest had no doubt prescribed them...