Word: monarchically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...political terms, probably the most interesting. Accompanied by his attractive Greek-born wife Sofia, Spain's King Juan Carlos I, 38, is scheduled to arrive this week for a four-day ceremonial visit to Washington and New York City. Americans will be primarily interested in appraising the inexperienced monarch who is trying to guide Spain out of Franco's reactionary past into a progressive future, without disrupting the country and without antagonizing its emerging political factions, right and left...
...some moments of serenity" on Manhattan's bustling East Side. ∙ Died. Gordon Browning, 86, three-term Governor of Tennessee and six-term Congressman (1923-35); in Huntingdon, Tenn. Democrat Browning won his first term as Governor in 1936 with what he called the unsolicited support of the monarch of Memphis, Boss E.H. Crump. Once in office, Browning became a self-styled people's Governor, hammering at "the Boss" by pushing machine-mashing bills through the state legislature. His independent move cost Browning re-election in 1938, but he came bellowing back in 1948, the same year Estes...
...country was created by those people from a decaying Europe who sustained what he calls "vivid pockets of conscience." They established an ethical and moral government, he says, but not a government to be run by a monarch or a church. "Every aspect of our democracy comes from these vestigial remnants of that faith," the dean insists. Up until recently, as he sees things, we could take politicians of common stripe and at the moment of inaugural turn them into leaders who could justly be trusted with this moral heritage...
...this musical is like watching a marauding shark becalmed in a suburban swimming pool. As an actor, Nicol Williamson radiates a sense of imminent danger, mercurial passion and magnetic authority in such a way that he could be every inch the awesome monarch that Henry VIII was. But in Rex he is submerged in a book that swamps that masterful Tudor reign with research-soaked tedium...
...most recently unemployed monarch is Greece's King Constantino II, 35, who was ousted by a military junta in 1967. He lives quietly not far from London with his Queen, 'the former Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, and their three children...