Word: monarchical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle's speeches and changing only one or two words-calling for the "depigeonization" of Paris statues instead of the "decolonization" of French African territories. In the last six weeks, a book called The Court has sold 80,000 copies: it pictures De Gaulle as a bewigged monarch with a king-sized ego lording it over silk-stockinged, fawning courtiers...
Consummate Actress. Their own dear Queen, with forbidding beneficence, hovered over it all, notably regal, notably bourgeois, and - as Author Petrie remarks - a consummate actress. The power of royalty was in one sense so limited that, as Bagehot declared in the 1860s, the monarch "must sign his own death warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to him." But the prestige of Victoria grew and grew, nor were her prerogatives trifling: she could disband the army, unman the navy, set free all prisoners, make every British citizen a peer...
...roaring Regency bloods. In its heyday, Crockford's was the acknowledged heaven of gambling hells. Benjamin Disraeli, who had to wait six years before being elected to membership in 1840, likened its original building in St. James's to "Versailles in the days of the Grand Monarch.'' It was a favorite haunt of politicians, and the Duke of Wellington instinctively repaired to Crockford's when he tried to form a new Cabinet in 1834. The future Napoleon III was holed up there when an emissary came to offer him the crown of Greece (he turned...
...chocolate cakes and pound cakes-all loaded with calorie-packed butter and topped wherever possible with sugar icings and pecans. And Lubin's taste for rich, high-quality baked goods is clearly widely shared. Now the most profitable subsidiary of Chicago's Consolidated Foods Corp. (other brands: Monarch, Hires), Sara Lee last year accounted for 6% of Consolidated's sales-and better than...
...Only Celia (Miss Elinor Martin) has the wild-eyed boredom proper to a group of immortals who cannot determine why they bother to trip their completely meaningless measures. And Miss Colleen Ryan, the Queen of the Fairies, despite her attractive contralto voice, lacks the heavy authority of a true monarch...