Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bore the white man's burden to Fuzzy-Wuzzies and Gunga Dins, will be cut down to only 160,000 men, all regulars. The R.A.F., the few to whom so many owe so much, will become an air force without combat airplanes of about 150,000 men. The Royal Navy, which for centuries enforced the Pax Britannica and patrolled an empire from Gibraltar to Rangoon, will be reduced to 75,000 men. "The role of naval forces in total war is somewhat uncertain," said the White Paper candidly...
...brightest young directors: "American movies are for me the very first in the world. The reason? Because in them one never feels what really kills a movie-the contempt of those who make them for the public and for their art." Jean Cocteau enters a dissent: "Hollywood is a royal house exhausted by family marriages...
Against the Combined Services, the ruggers took advantage of an untimely Royal Navy cruise to run the Army substitutes ragged, in what Bermuda's Mid-Ocean News called "a display of rugby seldom seen in this Island...
...knew that Soler had spent most of his life at the Escorial's monastery near Madrid, composing, conducting the choir and giving lessons to members of the Spanish royal family. But Escorial officials gave him no help. Marvin moved on to the Escolanía at Montserrat, where...
Last week the world got its first inkling of what Dramatist O'Neill was up to in his sprawling series. Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater, which gave the first performance last year of Long Day's Journey, gave the first performance of A Touch of the Poet, the play O'Neill had intended to start the cycle before he became fascinated by its characters and wrote two other plays exploring their ancestors. Generally, Sweden's critics applauded O'Neill's story of Cornelius Melody, a drunken, frustrated Irishman who runs an inn near...