Word: regente
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...course, it goes without saying that we aren't particularly interested in having De Sapio run the country with Harriman as regent; Stevenson may have his faults and quirks, but we independents feel he is basically honest and never opportunistic...
THIS was the year, it seems, 1 when nearly everybody who had never gone abroad made it. Neighbors from Tulsa, Wheeling and Santa Barbara ran into neighbors in Regent Street, Place Pigalle and Via Veneto. A neighbor of TIME Advertising Salesman Crowell Hadden learned the hard way how small the world has become. At home in Glen Cove, L.I., he had bet $100 that he could stop smoking longer than Hadden. One night in Paris, not long after, Hadden spotted his friend in a dim Left Bank cave. "There he was," Hadden chuckled, "relaxed and happy-with smoke curling from...
...bill of abdication would then be presented and passed by both Houses (and presumably, under the Statute of Westminster, by all the Dominion Parliaments too). As now planned, the bill would deprive Margaret of all rights of royal succession, her right to become Regent if Elizabeth and Philip should die before Prince Charles comes of age, her annual ?6,000 income under the Civil List, and her function of Councillor of State, which she exercises whenever the sovereign is incapacitated or absent from the country for a long time...
...Warsaw's Radziwill Palace, once the residence of the Czar's regent in Poland, the top Communist leaders of Russia's satellite states conferred with Premier Bulganin and Defense Minister Zhukov over a fistful of interlocking treaties for the Soviet Union's NATO-type organization in Eastern Europe. The meeting got the crystal-chandelier treatment, with all flags flying...
...Turner (The Shocking History of Advertising) doubts that all Victorian couples courted with the fluency of Nat and Miss Somersdown, who are taken from a book on courting etiquette of the year 1877. But he believes that their language illustrates one extreme of the art of courting. The Prince Regent (later George IV) showed the opposite extreme when, on being introduced to his bride-to-be, Caroline of Brunswick, he tottered backwards, crying to one of his courtiers: "Harris, I am not well. Pray get me a glass of brandy...