Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgium to its commonsensible core. The Socialists were bitterly opposed to Leopold's return, the Catholics strongly in favor. A regency was set up under Leopold's Eton-educated brother Charles, an able, inoffensive prince who is interested in archery. Thanks to Spaak's efforts, the "royal question" was put well back on the shelf...
...Rochester Sneath, headmaster of Selhurst School, "near Petworth in Sussex," seemed to need advice. Since fashionable Marlborough College had recently been visited by the royal family, Sneath wrote to Marlborough's headmaster: "As you are probably aware, this summer sees the 300th anniversary of the foundation of Selhurst ... I am most anxious to have the honor of entertaining Their Majesties, if this is at all feasible. How did you engineer your royal visit...
Queen Victoria (following the confidential advice of Canada's Governor General, Sir Edmund Head) chose Ottawa as Canada's capital in 1857. The late Goldwin Smith* thought it a poor choice. His snorted comment: "A subarctic village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit." Ottawa (pop. about 160,000) is no longer a village. Neither is it the "Washington of the North" that Sir Wilfrid Laurier hoped that it would be. It is not for want of trying...
Painter Winston Churchill was doing all right: three of his paintings (Blenheim Tapestries; Goldfish Pool, Chartwell; The Blue Sitting Room, Trent Park) were accepted for this year's Royal Academy exhibition...
...William Robinson Leigh is one of them. The trouble began, he thinks, with the Algerian wars (1830-47), which made absinthe a French fashion. Artist Leigh, 81, is not the absinthe type, as Manhattan gallerygoers could see last week. West Virginia-born, he spent the Gay Nineties in the Royal Academy at Munich, mastering-between occasional beers -the realistic painting then in demand...