Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In 1841 a daring British privateer named Brooke forced the Sultan of Brunei to make him Raja of the vast East Indian district called Sarawak. Today his descendant is swank, hard Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, who as The White Raja of Sarawak rules 500,000 natives from his palace at...
Panayoti Tsaldaris, though determined to restore the Throne and strong with the prestige of having just put down a Republican Revolution, is somewhat skittish about her cousin, ex-King Georgios II. One year was the short span of "Gorgeous Georgios' " kingship twelve years ago, and his childless ex-Queen...
But he sowed his architectural wild oats at a time when the power of monarchs was everywhere being curbed, and did not live long enough to experience regrets for their cost. Although Sitwell and Barton write long and authoritatively on the beauties of the romantic architecture he sponsored, a taint...
The first generation of Rocky Mountain capitalists, piling up their millions in the turbulent frontier period, were usually hard, determined men who were entirely satisfied with the simple acquisition of wealth and power. But so swift was the West's industrial expansion that a Montana-born financier, William Boyce...
When William Somerset Maugham was 23, he wrote a little book on Spain called The Land of the Blessed Virgin. Having escaped uncongenial work in a London hospital, free for the first time, he fell pleasantly in love in Seville, where he was made a "pretty fool of." An inexperienced...