Word: restorationism
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Alba's disgruntlement with things at home had long been known, his move long expected. But Alba, an ardent monarchist, might have been expected to stick at his post so long as he could do anything to help Pretender Don Juan de Bourbon, who has been waiting in Switzerland...
The neckline was definitely down: most noteworthy feature was the "Restoration bosom," in both evening and daytime dresses. Lucien Lelong hailed it as the "rediscovery of the shape of the body, emphasizing the bust." His black crepe daytime dress, Cythère, cost $360, and his evening dress, "Amphytrite," looked...
Out of the turbulence of toppling cabinets, armed revolt and panic which rocked Buenos Aires and the Argentine nation, three facts emerged: 1) Colonel Juan Domingo Perón was out cold; 2) General Eduardo Avalos, new Minister of War, held the sword-hand; 3) democratic Argentines, united in a...
Muscovite workmen were busy last week behind the Kremlin's walls. Foreign correspondents, on a rare sightseeing trip, saw signs of a thoroughgoing restoration project.* The nine gilded, onion-shaped domes of the Cathedral of the Annunciation, stripped of their camouflage paint, shone in the October sun. At the...
*There are two types of miracles: "first class," involving growth of new bone tissue; "second class," such as restoration of sight or speech, healing of tuberculosis, paralysis, cancer. No miracle credited to Pierrette has been "first class."