Word: monarchs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what she termed the "communistic" fantasies of "desperate radicals"-by which she meant Home Rule for Ireland, Reform of the House of Lords and her Liberal arch-antagonist and recurrent Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone. Gladstone was at once a passionate monarchist, reformer, and pillar of brazen endurance. Monarch and monarchist battled for 20 years. Much of the time the widowed Queen was unpopular with her subjects because she insisted on secluding herself in her country palaces...
...Boris, long known as the foxiest monarch in Europe, saw the time had come to shift from a pro-German policy. Even if he had not faced the Führer's fury, the pressures squeezing his throne might have felled any man of weak heart...
...Dorlans. The Duce began by ticking off King Vittorio Emanuele, presumably as insurance against the unlikely prospect that the sour-faced little monarch decides either to abdicate or convert his House of Savoy into a bargain basement for peace terms. Mussolini pointedly recalled a decree of May 10, 1936, which elevated him to rank jointly with the King as "first marshal of Italy." Thus the King (constitutionally Commander in Chief of all armed forces) can legally make overtures to the Allies only with the consent and participation of the Duce...
William Randolph Hearst, monarch of a communications dynasty (16 newspapers, eight magazines, four radio stations, one news service, one feature syndicate, one photo service), art collector, exponent of yellow journalism, worshiper at circulation's shrine, reporter, reformer, politico, columnist and multimillionaire, was 80 last week. For a man of his means and mightiness he celebrated modestly...
...Shakespeare, says Author Spencer, who best reflected in his plays the terrible split in men's minds between the old order and the new skepticism. In Richard II, Shakespeare showed the tragedy of a monarch who believed that the trappings of kingship were what made a king. In Henry V, he showed a king who knew "the hollowness of . . . ceremony" and became great by rejecting his youthful dissipation and embracing the just and divine ideals of the perfect monarch. Hamlet's world was shattered when his mother, the Queen, married her late husband's brother before...