Word: regal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General's regal bearing amounts to much more than theatrical bravado. "Despite haughty denials, shrugs of the shoulder, feigned indignation, General De Gaulle is, by temperament, a monarchist." Viansson-Ponte believes that if De Gaulle could restore the French throne he would gladly do so. But as a matter of practical policy he is resigned to democratic forms, if not to democratic substance, in French politics. This in no way diminishes the General's self-esteem...
...Whitehall, past Nelson's monument in Trafalgar Square, by the National Gallery, where the flag hung at half-mast, and into the Strand moved the gun carriage, which had borne the regal corpses of Queen Victoria, Edward VII, George V and George VI. Along the way the pavements were thronged with silent watchers, and the white topees of Royal Marines dotted the route like snowdrops...
Admissions people are impressed with a regal straight A in organic; but they are enchanted with a common B-plus in a stiff mathematics course; and they are orgastic over a vulgar C-minus in physical chemistry...
...fire as long as she could resist returning to Europe. In 1949 she established herself in her 18th century Venetian palazzo, began collecting Lhasa terriers for lap dogs and adding young artists to her fold, while gondoliers awarded her the title of "the last Duchess" for her ribald, regal ways...
Died. Marion Deering McCormick, 78, doyenne of Chicago society, heiress to a $120 million farm-machinery fortune (the Deering harvester, McCormick reaper), whose considerable philanthropies (Northwestern University, Chicago's Art Institute, Illinois Children's Home & Aid Society), gold-plated dinner parties and regal mien won her hands-down election in a 1954 Chicago Daily News poll to choose an "official" queen of the city's society; after a long illness; in Chicago...