Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seeks only to save the common people's party from perdition in loose liberalism, and that, while receptive, he is unselfish, unconcerned about becoming President. His enemies say that, having long bided his time, this 70-year-old sagebrush poker-player at last holds the makings of a royal flush and can scarcely contain himself when he looks at the pot he might...
...host to foreign notables, receives ambassadors, launches ships, opens hospitals, unveils war monuments, throws parties for poor children, meddles not at all in politics. He gets $47,700 salary a year, an equal amount for expenses, has the Elysée Palace as a Paris home and the ancient royal château of Rambouillet for his summer residence. French wits call him the "prisoner of Marianne." The last job an ambitious, up-&-coming French politician wants is the presidency...
Loyalist Spain's bitterly fought "war-within-a-war" centred in Madrid and for it General Franco's troops in the nearby trenches had grandstand seats. One of the hardest-fought engagements between the Loyalist factions took place near the old Royal Palace, in West Madrid on the high bank of the Manzanares River within plain view of some ten miles of Franco entrenchments. The Communist stronghold was in the partly completed Government buildings on the old race-track course in northeastern Madrid, less than two miles from the Franco trenches in University City. At one time...
Although she does not rate as a royal highness, the Duchess of Windsor loves royal ado of all kinds. Last week the Duke bought her a truly royal present-one of the eleven Norwegian platinum fox pelts in the world. Price: $1,722.50. Some days earlier he had also taken her to Biarritz to see some royal statuary-a bust of Queen Victoria, the Duke'sgreat-grandmother, designed by the French Sculptor Maxime Réal del Sarte. If Queen Mary cannot take Duchess Wally, it is a safe bet that Queen Victoria could not have. The Victoria bust...
...half of marriage to his American-born Duchess, the Duke of Windsor now calls a dinner jacket a "tux," a wireless a "radio," occasionally emits the word "cute." But he still says "we" when he means himself, still insists that all their friends refer to his wife as "Her Royal Highness." (Their proposed visit to England in March has been indefinitely postponed because of the dispute over her title.) The Duchess he addresses as "My Darling," sometimes "Sweet...