Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week rammed through the docile Majlis the Shah's anticorruption bill which requires all government officials, civil or military, to file an inventory of their properties, as well as those of their wives and children. An earlier bill forbade ministers, government officials, Deputies, Senators or members of the royal family from dealing in any way with companies having or seeking contracts from the government...
...color's influence turned the trick. The 17th century court physician had less brass. When France's young Louis XIV caught syphilis, the doctors were too spineless to tell him (or anyone else). They also disguised the Sun King's measles by reporting that the royal body was triumphantly expelling subversive tapeworms...
...terrified of hurrying the process and thereby literally getting the ax. Not daring to bleed the youth as much as they wanted to, they finally decided to try treating him "as if he was some meane person." They bisected a rooster, attached the reeking halves to Henry's royal soles, which at least allowed him to keep most of his blood until he died soon after...
...fell ill of kidney disease on a Sunday evening, Dr. Edmund King braved a death sentence by bleeding Charles without consent of his ministers. Next day they forgivingly voted Dr. King ?1,000, but sent in so many other doctors (18) that he was nearly crowded out of the royal chamber. For five days, writes Turner, the panicky new platoon tried everything on Charles except rest and privacy...
Haydn: The Salomon Symphonies, Vol. I (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham; Capitol-EMI, 3 LPs). The first six of the twelve famous symphonies Haydn wrote under the sponsorship of London Impresario J. P. Salomon in the late years of his life. Conductor Beecham gives them a fine, forthright reading that underscores their coltish exuberance, plays down their romantic charms...