Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third day of the long wait, Press Secretary Ross took pains to point out that the signing of actual surrender terms would take two or three days and that the President would not proclaim final victory until the last formality had been completed...
...early to stroll on the wide lawns, sometimes played the piano before breakfast. Going to the Capitol, he sat down at an organ under the lofty, music-amplifying dome, launched into Beethoven's Minuet in G and the Blackhawk Waltz. Then, with the Governor and Press Secretary Charlie Ross, he sang Peggy O'Neil and Melancholy Baby...
Private First Class Clarence W. Ross, stationed at Las Vegas Army Airfield, peeled off his uniform at the National A.A.U. Senior Weight-lifting Championships, displayed his Varga-boy thorax and other features (see cut), which added up to a title: 1945's Most Perfectly Developed...
...Ross IV was a strapping, handsome man with high cheekbones inherited from his Malayan mother (a royal Sulu princess). His chief relaxations from the cares of kingship were listening to whispers of the faraway world that arrived over his private station (the objective of the Japanese bombing) and reading whodunits (he owned a library of 5,000 books). The only white woman in his kingdom was his consort, Queen Rose, a petite Cockney cashier about 25 years his junior, whom he had married in London...
...Ross rulers so far (they hold a 999-year lease granted by Queen Victoria) have been benevolent monarchs. Last week King John Clunies-Ross V, 19, was still in England with his mother, Queen Rose, his brother, "Prince" Charles and his sisters, the "Princesses" Elizabeth and Inin. As soon as he can, he will return to his realm to receive the genuflections of his subjects in a crownless coronation ceremony. The kings of Cocos usually wear old straw hats...