Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside, the royal, noble and merely distinguished guests were scarcely less tickly. They rose when Churchill entered, beaming, kept their seats when Attlee came in. The Dowager Marchioness of Reading strode up to peer at the cushions placed for Elizabeth and Philip...
...there was more than romance on Michael's mind. From the day of his arrival in London he had been holding high level talks about his job in Bucharest. The Rumanian Communists' power grab was complete, and Michael, king in a Communist-dominated country, had become a royal cipher. The stunned immobility with which Rumanians watched their beloved National Peasant Party Leader Juliu Maniu be crushed under Communist Matriarch Ana Pauker's steamroller told Michael he had not long to reign-even as Pauker's virtual prisoner...
...seen again, burned to blackened skeletons. The heat melted stonework to limy slag. In all, the destruction lasted just 16 minutes. Firemen counted 41 dead, none positively identifiable, in the worst fire disaster in Dominion history. Two days later, when New Zealand put out flags to celebrate the royal wedding, Christchurch flags flew at halfmast...
Among all the veteran newsmen, big byliners and trained seals who covered the royal wedding, there was one notable cub. For Rebecca West, 55, famed as a novelist, critic and deep student of homo politicus (TIME, Dec. 8), it was her first assignment in spot news reporting. Editor Herbert Gunn of London's Evening Standard had given her his paper's only pass to Westminster Abbey...
...Street in a Standard car. Cool and unhurried as a good rewrite-man, she filled short sheets of copy paper in longhand which were snatched away for typing and setting. In a few sentences, she caught the mood of a memorable day: "It might seem folly to have a royal wedding in winter, but it was wise enough. The people are tired of sadness, they need a party; they are tired of hate, they need to think of love; they are tired of evil, they need to think of goodness." With shrewd economy she appraised the guests: "shabby top hats...