Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...royal visit to Chicago lasted only 14 hours, but it was the most lavish 14 hours of pageantry in Chicago's history, and the warmest reception Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have had so far on their North American tour...
More than a million Chicagoans lined the Lake Michigan shore front to watch the royal yacht Britannia steam into harbor, escorted by seven warships and saluted by more than 500 small craft, including two Chinese junks. U.S. Air Force and Navy jets thundered across the sky; aerial torpedoes exploded parachutes carrying the Stars and Stripes and Union Jacks...
...sickness or satire. Among them: ¶ Tom Lehrer, 31, onetime Harvard mathematics instructor and still the college boy's delight. Lehrer is that rare amateur who turned professional and who did so successfully; in his last engagement he threatened the sanity of S.R.O. crowds at London's Royal Festival Hall. Sample Lehrer lyric...
...have been left behind. Aircrafts were caught in an earnings downdraft caused by heavy investments in the new jets: during the first half Boeing skidded nine points to close June at 37½, Douglas dropped 10½ to 47½. Oils were burdened by heavy inventories and price cuts: Royal Dutch dipped 5⅜ to 42½; Standard (N.J.) slid to 51⅝; Gulf worried off 16 to 110. Among utilities, losses from two to five points hit Consolidated Edison, Southern California Edison, American Electric Power...
...like Noel Coward to owning a Diners' Club card, the plumed figure of La Rochefoucauld towers at an impressive altitude of worldliness. The eldest son (born in 1613) of an ancient and doughty French clan, François de la Rochefoucauld followed with vigor the customs of the royal court, which is to say he carried on a succession of tumultuous affairs with titled ladies, tangled in the incessant intrigues and wars of 17th century France, recovered twice from severe wounds, and at 66 died, as befitted a gentleman, of the gout. His presence at court gave him plentiful...