Word: monarchism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop last week archly recalled Aesop's fable of the frogs that were "so annoyed with the stolid tyranny" of their inanimate monarch, King Log,* that they asked Jupiter to remove him. Jupiter sent them King Stork, who thereupon gobbled up the frogs...
Next week, when she has taken her walk to the Nieuwe Kerk, Juliana will be inaugurated (she will not be crowned, because the truculently democratic Dutch do not like their monarchs actually to wear the crown, which is considered the property of the state, not of the monarch). Juliana will swear to "protect the general and individual freedom . . . the general and individual prosperity ... as it is the duty of a good Queen to do." Then the chairman of the Joint Session of the States-General will, on behalf of the sovereign people, pronounce the proud and wary formula: "By virtue...
...Crump, the 73-year-old monarch of Memphis, once boasted: "I've never been beaten in any election I ever took part in, even when it was running for captain of the baseball team in school." Since 1928, when his candidate for governor lost out in the primary, Ed Crump had always made good on his boast. Last week, he was trying to swallow...
...Dail last week, up stood fiery young Deputy Con Lehane of Dublin. He asked Prime Minister John A. Costello if he was aware how the nation felt about having a "foreign monarch" on the Leinster House lawn. Costello made a careful reply: the statue would soon be removed; the deputies needed more room to park their cars. It was anticipated, he said, that the removal would begin this month...
When the real shooting began, Cotton kept close to the leaders with a 71. Next day he was presented to King George VI at the first tee (the first time a reigning monarch had ever witnessed a British golf championship). With his King watching, Cotton smacked a prodigious drive down the fairway. He birdied that first hole. Then he proceeded to tear Muirfield apart-green by green and fairway by fairway. His best round: a blistering 66, a record for the course in a British Open...