Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Welcome Home!" roared half a million voices from the crowd clustered 40-deep along the Portsmouth waterfront. Naval batteries thundered salutes. Sirens howled. And from a forest of mastheads bobbing in the harbor royal ensigns dipped in respectful greeting. On the quarter-deck of the Vanguard the Royal Family stood once again, berry-brown and beaming at the end of their 14,000-mile, three-month trip. As the great, grey battleship that had carried them so far slid gracefully into her home berth once more, Princess Elizabeth was so excited that she broke into a dance step. "Oh," cried...
...Craned Neck. In London next day, many another joyful, loyal subject felt the same. It was spring, the Royal Family were home again, and it was the tenth anniversary of the coronation as well. London was in holiday mood. The travelers had spent one last night aboard the Vanguard in Portsmouth (early-rising dockyard workers scrupulously observed a zone of silence about the ship so the family could sleep until 8 a.m.), but by 9 in the morning the London crowds had already begun to gather at Buckingham Palace, munching sandwiches on the curbs. Drab Government buildings were decked with...
Cause & Effect. It all happened because Canada could not do enough for her little girl. Two months ago, when 18-year-old Barbara Ann came triumphantly home from Sweden as world's figure-skating champion, home-town Ottawa rolled out the royal carpet. The Governor General's Foot Guards Band played the music; Cabinet Ministers rallied round; kids were let out of school. Then His Worship, the Mayor, fumbled through his welcoming speech-and gave her the auto, the gift of her fellow citizens. Nobody complained at the time that amateurs were not supposed to accept shiny...
...many a Canadian, the royal title of George VI, "by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India," has long been an unhappy reminder of bygone colonialism. Last week in the House of Commons, Quebec's Eugene Marquis decided the time had come to do something about...
...anger boiled over in such pronouncements as "Parsons canonize bourgeois mediocrity" and "Official Christianity is both aesthetically and intellectually ludicrous and indecent, a scandal in the Christian sense." On his deathbed in 1855 at the age of 42, Kierkegaard refused all churchly ministrations, saying that "the parsons are royal functionaires, and royal functionaires are not related to Christianity...