Word: royale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Founded and operated for a seemingly infinite variety of reasons, ranging from royal good fellowship, to mutual financial benefit (low-cost insurance), to generously financed works of public good will,† the nation's 248 major fraternal orders (125,861 local chapters) have shared as never before in the golden bounty of U.S. prosperity. Since 1947, overall membership in the Masonic order, biggest U.S. fraternity, has climbed 10% to 4,000,000; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, second largest, reports a husky 25% gain in new dues-paying brethren to a total of 1,200,000. From...
...Miscalculation." Last week, in just such an exercise of military futility, some 200 British ground troops (infantrymen of the Cameronians and the 15th/19th King's Royal Hussars) were not only in action in Oman, but had been forced into a brief but prudent retreat. Casualties among British regular forces: six cases of heat prostration...
...Tower, tells how King Solomon imprisons his daughter after a prophet predicts she will marry the poorest man in the kingdom. Joash, dead-broke, is thrown into the same prison, promptly marries the princess, and in the end is accepted by his father-in-law and decked in royal robes. The score, as frothy as the libretto, played heavily on the comic effects, e.g., King Solomon's staccato outbursts, and included some melodious arias which went down like whipped cream. The moral is sung by the prophet, who is young and just getting started in the business: "Whether...
...After 30 years on the track and more winners (5,090) than any jockey on record, Johnny Longden got the shortest and roughest ride of his career from a maiden filly named Royal Zaca at Del Mar. When his mount reared, Johnny was pinned against the starting gate and set down for the rest of the season with a broken...
...Kind, Too Royal. The hungry population grew to detest the lively, impudent, extravagant Queen. The birth of a royal heir, though long awaited,† did nothing to feed men's bellies, and the advancement of the Queen's favorites only worsened a government already too feeble to tackle the nation's economic problems. The clumsy Louis became increasingly ineffectual, too kind to be tough, too royal to be radical, and the weaker he grew the more boldly the Queen assumed his powers. When the Revolution began, many moderates took the side of the King and Queen...