Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paul H. Buck, Librarian of Harvard College, was made a Commander of the Royal Order of the Phoenix, and Harry K. Messenger, Honorary Curator of the Modern Greek Collection in the Harvard College Library, received the Gold Cross of the Royal Order of George I for devoting his full time in the past two and a half years to increasing the collection...
...everyone cheered the news, and realizing that they would not, the Tory government shrewdly timed the announcement for the holiday season when members of the House of Commons were out of town. To the royal family, "Dickie" Mountbatten is a favorite blood relation (he is both Elizabeth's cousin and Philip's uncle); to Britain's political leaders, who keep advancing him, he is a diplomat-sailor with charm, foresight and savvy; to his fellow officers he is courageous and capable; to the newspaper-reading public he is part hero, part legend, handsome and dashing...
...telling such episodes, Biographer Wheeler-Bennett gives little hint that he wrote his history in the shadow of-and partly inside-Buckingham Palace. An acre of Fabergé eggshells beset the path of the royal (and official) biographer, but Wheeler-Bennett has manfully covered the field to give a picture of a king and a king's-eye view of his times. Apart from inside stuff such as bits of George's conversations with F.D.R. at Hyde Park (where the lordly Roosevelt called him "young man"), the book offers a highly explicit picture of the functions and limitations...
...only son of a poor, Nonconformist family, who finds his vocation for science by reading H. G. Wells and looking at the evening star through a toy telescope. By arduously won scholarships, he finds himself at King's College, London, peering at crystals and within reach of the Royal Society ("my Mecca and my Westminster and my Rome"). A vision of sanctity comes to Miles (after he has correctly predicted the structure of a crystal he had never seen) like those of "the mystics who have described the experience of being at one with...
Olmedo defeated Frank Taaffe of Australia 6-1, 6-1, 6-3 in play at the Royal King's Park Courts...