Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hampered by a simulated French accent, Bloom lacks gravity in certain scenes, but her ravishing beauty is authority enough. With a voice that can raise a welt with a whisper, Atkins is monarch of all she surveys. The rest of the excellent cast helps make the Broadhurst Theater a plot of royal ground...
Frederik IX, who was King of Denmark from 1947 until his death last week at 72, was a monarch of many parts, and a few forgivable shortcomings. As he once put it, "It's damn nice to be King." A robust 6 ft. 6 in., he trained in the navy, exercised to make himself "the strongest monarch in history," as a London newspaper once dubbed him, and sported tattoos on his arms and chest. To most Danes he was a discreet, suitable constitutional monarch and an ideal family man and father. His popularity was enhanced by Swedish-born Queen...
Complaints. While the details of the Government's case were laboriously argued at the trial, the jury was convinced of the essential charges, finding Dowdy guilty on all eight counts. The Justice Department pictured Cohen as a slick operator from Baltimore whose Monarch Construction Co. grossed more than $2,000,000 from home improvements in the Washington area between 1963 and 1965. Complaints about high costs and shoddy workmanship caused the Federal Housing Authority to investigate Monarch, banks were warned by the FHA, money became scarce and the company folded. When the Justice Department began its own investigation, Cohen...
Cohen's scheme for avoiding prosecution was to get Dowdy to call him before his subcommittee, thereby enabling Cohen to testify about his own fraudulent practices at Monarch and then be granted immunity from prosecution for his testimony. Cohen assigned Myrvin Clark, Monarch's sales manager, to approach Dowdy. The deal, according to the Government, was that Dowdy would call Cohen if paid $25,000. Clark, who had earlier pleaded guilty to a charge of transporting the bribe money, testified that he gave Dowdy $25,000 in a briefcase at the Atlanta airport on Sept. 22, 1965. Dowdy...
Miss Redgrave's Mary is regal, nervous, passionate, uncertain - a delicate creature in life who becomes indomitable only in death. Miss Jackson's Elizabeth is cunning, complex, intriguing - a monarch whose desire for power is both a motivating force and a tragic flaw, Otherwise, various men of the court make violent mischief amongst each other on staircases and battlements...