Word: monarchal
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...Monarch to Another. He and brother Wilhelm went instead to an ordinary public school in Potsdam. "Our very first report cards," writes His Royal Highness without the suggestion of a double take, "indicated that we were the best of the whole class...
Lulu followed Lily to the U.S., got a job as a Ford mechanic with the romantic idea of becoming self-supporting and marrying her. Grandfather said no, however, and took up the matter with Henry Ford, as one monarch to another. Suddenly Lulu found himself in a Ford plant in Argentina to "cool...
...Powerful Ethiopian. Since Ethiopia has neither general elections nor a free press, many Eritreans fear that they may lose their new freedom. No monarch in the world today (except perhaps Saudi Arabia's Ibn Saud) wields greater power over his country's affairs than does Haile Selassie. Selassie personally opens all diplomatic pouches from his missions abroad, keeps in personal touch with embassies and legations by letter, appoints and dismisses every one of twelve provincial governors, handpicks his two houses of Parliament, assigns lands and sets rents for houses, keeps careful tabs on his Imperial Guardsmen fighting...
...wife will prescribe for the monarch's four legal wives" and his ample harem. She will have to observe local ground rules and wear a veil when out of doors...
...There is so little rainfall in his land that the monarch's wives and other palace ladies bathe in French perfume...