Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hope-Taylor was guided to it by the Venerable Bede, whose history of early Britain (written in the 8th century) related that Edwin, a 7th century king of Northumbria, had a royal palace of sorts at Gefrin, which is now the small (six houses) village of Yeavering in the Cheviot Hills. No visible traces remained, but in 1951 Cambridge University made an air survey of the region. Pictures of a field of sprouting barley showed a vague rectangular shadow and a smaller, wedge-shaped...
...only too well aware of his sociological responsibilities, many of his predecessors in the industry could hardly have cared less about such niceties. In the early days of U.S. insurance, most firms were stock companies concentrated in the hands of a few powerful men who treated policyholders with royal contempt, and piled up royal fortunes. By 1905, scandals so wracked the industry with revelations of fraud, corruption and lavish parties given by insurance executives that New York State 'started an investigation. It uncovered such fraud that before long the industry was under stricter governmental control; sharp-eyed insurance commissions...
...door of the Broadmoor Hotel last Wednesday, a group of bogus Indians in headdresses and war paint burst out of the hotel and started to yell and beat their tom toms in greeting to the Crimson's bus. The queen of the tournament with some of her royal court of Colorado College girls followed the Indians and began passing out cowboy hats and candy to the new arrivals. Thus, with the customary hoop and holler, another hockey team was suitably welcomed to the official NCAA hockey tournament...
...example, put on a pair of royal blue, pegged pants, rhythm your way into the office, extend hand, and say, "Dig ya cool cat." If this seeems degrading, dress quite conservatively and wear white gloves. When the interviewer extends his hand, shrink away, then walk around his arm and whisper furtively into his ear, "Germs you know, they're all over the place...
...maternal dispatch from Monaco, Princess (High Society) Grace issued a bulletin on the development of five-week-old Princess Caroline, christened at week's end. Straight from the royal cradle: "Little Caroline does not suck her thumb . . . She certainly does not suck all her fingers, as some monster suggested . . . She hates hats . . . She also has a prejudice against her father's camera . . . They say she is a very pretty child, but how should I know...