Word: regents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Maria Pia, 20, daughter of Italy's exiled King Umberto, Princess Royal of the House of Savoy; and Prince Alexander, 30, shipping executive and son of Yugoslavia's onetime Prince Regent Paul; in the village of Cascais, Portugal...
...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...
...predatory men" was un-English. Bus drivers themselves met the crisis with the required tact. At Trafalgar Square traffic lights, when one Londoner leaped aboard, the conductor grinned and addressed the passengers, "Shall I chuck him off or give him a medal?" As lights halted another bus at Lower Regent Street, the conductor bellowed cheerfully, "Stand by to repel boarders...
...Modest Pamphlet. Shoriki has been fulfilling such great expectations ever since he abruptly cut short his career as deputy police chief in Tokyo in 1924 after an assassin almost succeeded in killing the pVince regent (now Emperor). Says Shoriki, who was held responsible for the inadequate guard: "Instead of committing harakiri, I bought a newspaper." With borrowed money he purchased tiny (circ. 40,000), struggling Yomiuri, which means "reading for sale." cashed in on his police experience by getting the most sensational crime coverage in Tokyo. He added a pioneering radio section and the comics. In four years Yomiuri...
Border Incident. In Nebraska, campaigning for regent of the state university, Don Pierce put in a busy day tacking up posters, at nightfall found himself two miles inside Wyoming...