Word: monarchal
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...world comes the conception of monsters with which men cannot cope, from which they cannot escape. Science made banal and dreary these dreams, the cinema transforms them with its touchstone of cheapness, and no one can longer cower awed and terrified before apparitions. Kong, the magnificent ape-colossus, the monarch of a surviving world of dinosauri, stands alone...
...attends prizefights unknown to the mob, vents his economic theories among his industrial peers, takes no one into his con- fidence, and has many men under his domination. In practice Allied Chemical is not an alliance but a monarchy and Orlando Franklin Weber is its monarch. Studiously polite, wholly unyielding, little did Mr. Weber care last week for Mr. Gerard's futile questions. Little did he seem to care for a more emphatic protest. In fact so studiously did he keep in the background that there was no evidence that he was even aware that the Stock List Committee...
...William Randolph Hearst. Midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, it surveys the Pacific along a 50-mile crest of hills. Five times the size of the District of Columbia, its 240,000 acres give lordly privacy to its little capital. La Cuesta Encantada. On this Enchanted Hill, the monarch's castle rears cathedral towers to the sky. On the hill's slope, lesser castles serve humbly as "guest houses'"-Casa del Mar, Casa del Monte, Casa del Sol. Hard by these are enchanted gardens, marble swimming pools, a zoo complete with lion, leopard, bear, elephant, chimpanzee...
...Senator's surprise when "Willie," calling about him some of his blithe college friends, proceeded to run up the old rag's circulation-at wanton initial expense- by an amazing application of the Pulitzer method. (He had brought home bound copies of the World.) "The Monarch of the Dailies," he called his sheet, and the spirit of the office was carnival. "There is no substitute for circulation" and "What we want to arouse is the 'Gee Whiz!' emotion" were the watchwords. Lots to drink (though not for Hearst; he was and is a sipper of fine...
...matter of history; these two men caught something of the spirit of the fragments of time in which they lived, and they directed in some part the course of events. Was not Henry Adams, ironic, questioning, dubious, ill directed in his search for a manifest destifly as much the monarch--a suitable Adams word--among his contemporaries? But on this or on any other philosophic aspect of his subject Mr. Adams refuses to speculate. Only once, after carefully heading his bet, does he launch out into the realm of personal speculation. "I may," he says, "be quite wrong, but from...