Word: monarches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eagerly and a little apprehensively, Washington is preparing for President-elect Eisenhower's inauguration. Unlike the coronation of a British monarch, or the installation of a Chibcha chief, the inauguration of an American President has never quite lost a certain air of improvisation: democracy, on this occasion, wants to wear a silk hat, but it also wants to knock silk hats into the Potomac...
...president of Harvard, James Bryant Conant got around a good deal. He was not only the untitled monarch of American education, but also the chief social figure in a highly social community--Harvard. Some of his social obligations he enjoyed, others he took up grudgingly...
...Charles Mendl, 80, one of the last of the sabled international set, received a belated bequest from the late Albert Lasker, philanthropist and Manhattan adman: $5,000 and a box of 100 monarch-sized Havana cigars. Said Sir Charles, grateful but slightly puzzled: "All I ever did for Lasker was to get him rooms at another hotel when the [Paris] Ritz was full-up during the tourist season...
...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...