Word: roi
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...with the critical raspberry in their lifetimes, and it is certain that the mere getting out of the rubber-tired hack and rolling them off to the cemetery did not rectify their deficiencies, render more agreeable their not infrequent dullness, nor sublimate their frowsy cliches into epigrams of the Roi Cooper Magrue order...
Editor Daudet, who recognizes no political authority save that of the "King of France,"* immediately called out last week his "Camelots du Roi" a band of young Royalists thus derisively nicknamed "The King's Hawkers" because they have at times hawked upon the streets copies of L'Action Française. With sandbags, barbed wire, and 100 "Camelots" to defend him,. Editor Daudet felt safe in his office, announced that he would reside there indefinitely in a self-proclaimed state of siege. To reporters he cried: "My house, my stable and my inkpot are henceforth here! My Leaguers...
...Vive le Roi!" answered the young "Camelots," "Vive Daudet! Vive la France...
...work which the club will sing at the annual Symphony Hall Pension Fund Concert in the spring will be "Le Roi David" a dramatic psalm by the French composer Arthur Honegger...
Baldwin, steady country squire and ironmaster; Chamberlain, austerely Victorian Birmingham politician; Churchill, hot-head of a half-dozen simultaneous careers; Joynson-Hicks, plus royaliste que le roi; Amery, implacable Imperialist; Birkenhead, a lawyer, brilliant, fashionable, yet most profound: these are Britain...