Word: monarchal
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Daley is also something of an original. In a city with as robust a tradition of political corruption as Boston or New York, he has maintained a pristine record of personal honesty. Yet, like any other expert monarch, he has always known where and how to tolerate corruption within his realm. The son of a sheet-metal worker, Daley grew up in the gritty district of Bridgeport, where he continues to live in a modest bungalow. After starting out as a secretary to the city council at 25, Daley scrambled upward through the party ranks. Hence his understanding of Chicago...
HENRY VIII, by J. J. Scarisbrick. The cunning and flamboyant 16th century monarch is examined from some unflattering angles in this extensive biography by a British historian...
HENRY VIII, by J. J. Scarisbrick. In this massive but rewarding study by a British historian, the shrewd, boisterous, contradictory monarch is portrayed in all his vainglorious heroics, but rarely as a hero...
...Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry, said "a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never" before being beheaded. This may not mean that the King was an admirable character, since it was traditional in those days for condemned persons to say a good word for the monarch before their death. If a convicted person started a last-minute inflammatory tirade against the monarch, he could be dragged off at the very last minute, to a much crueler death...
HENRY VIII, by J. J. Scarisbrick. In this massive but rewarding study by a British historian, the shrewd, boisterous, contradictory monarch is portrayed in all his vainglorious heroics, but rarely as a hero...