Word: monarch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nothing was too good for old Ibn Saud, monarch of Saudi Arabia. Did he want a railroad? The Arabian American Oil Co. began a standard-gauge, 350-mile Arabian railroad, though convinced that highways would be more practical. Did he consider eight seats on the regular U.S.-bound T.W.A. plane too few to set aside for one of his 30-odd sons? A special plane was wheeled up. Aramco tried its best to anticipate Ibn Saud's every wish, from arranging lend-lease for Saudi Arabia and a cowboy outfit for one of the young princes to furnishing limousines...
Publicly, the Wafd bowed to their monarch's decision. Premier Nahas paid Afifi a congratulatory call, chatted for 40 minutes. Wafdist Foreign Minister Salah el Din, an anti-British firebrand, now in Rome, swallowed hard and welcomed the two appointments as "a natural choice...
...scholarly, fine-boned Arab of 62, who wears the blue robes of a Bedouin monarch and speaks in a high, thin voice, King Idris I led his Senussi tribesmen in two wars against the Italians, now uses a converted Italian barracks near Benghazi as his palace. He trusts the West, and privately refers to the seven-nation Arab League as "an alliance of weaknesses." But recognizing Libya's kinship with the rest of the Moslem world, he plans to join the Arab League. "If anybody ever succeeds in cementing this country together," says an English veteran of Libya...
Died. Marie Amelie, exiled Queen of Portugal, 86; of angina pectoris; near Versailles, France. A quiet, artistic monarch who dabbled in watercolors and turned out a novel called Chilosa, she led a tempestuous life. She was born in exile in England, the great-granddaughter of France's last King, Louis-Philippe. At 20, she married the heir to Portugal's throne. who as Carlos I reigned for 19 years until assassins surrounded the royal carriage and, before Amelie's eyes, shot & killed her husband and son. Her second son took over the throne, reigned for only...
...coarse, dumpy little peasant and Miss Hagen was quite beautiful but I suppose this shouldn't be held against her. John Buckmaster would have gained my unbridled huzzahs for his performance as the Dauphin had he not spoken in such a distinctly British manner--something incongruous for a French monarch...