Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Austria, Hungary and the Ukraine into a new tripartite empire. They picked blond, slender Wilhelm to be its sovereign, put him to studying Ukrainian. Soon he wrote nostalgic Ukrainian verse about the landscapes he had scarcely ever seen. He started wearing Ukrainian embroidered blouses and from them took his royal pseudonym, Vasily Vichivany (vichivany means embroidered). In 1918, he fought the Russians as colonel of a Ukrainian regiment...
...chest; he was Michael Hohenzollern-Siegmaringen, King of Rumania. Before him sat a group of men in tail coats and white ties; they were His Majesty's ministers, and most of them were Communists. The tableau was a remarkable manifestation of Communist elasticity. Young (26) Michael reigns in royal panoply over a state actually run by the Communists...
...psychiatrists at Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital diagnosed the patient's trouble as middle...
...swarthy, Canadian Rhodes Scholar, Gelber is a professional diplomat as well as an ex-professor. After teaching international relations at the University of Toronto, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943, and worked in what he call "ricochet political warfare," before taking his present...
Next night, when the same little old man entered the royal box in London's Drury Lane Theater, he was dressed in evening clothes. The audience rose to its feet and thunderously applauded. Up in his box, his watery blue eyes more liquid than usual, the great composer, 83-year-old Richard Strauss, bowed jerkily, first to the orchestra, then to the audience. Then he listened with half-parted lips to his music as played by the well-instructed Sir Thomas...