Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southwest, moved his family to Dallas. There Jim went to Oak-cliff High School (now Adamson High), made a name as a varsity football tackle, a member of the debating team (noted victory: in favor of capital punishment), a devotee of the history of Britain's Royal Navy, but also as an almost fanatic would-be cadet at West Point. Outcome: no vacancy at West Point, but a vacancy, and a triumphal breasting of the entrance examinations, to the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Jim Holloway entered Annapolis in 1915, graduated in June 1918 in the accelerated World...
...were trooping through the gutted mansion of 70-year-old former Premier Nuri asSaid, whose naked body was dragged through the streets a few days before. While the rebels begged newsmen to "see things as they are today, not as they were last week," and even closed the ransacked royal palace as if to erase the memory of the massacre there, grim tales of the revolt continued to come to light. In Athens a Belgian reported how the body of Nuri's son Sabah was dragged through the streets by a mob waving knives and portraits of Egypt...
...last week, nine-year-old Prince Charles of England accidentally tripped over a classmate's toes in a soccer match at Cheam School outside of London. Cried the injured party: "Hey, Fatty, get off my foot!" A husky lad, His Royal Highness squared off and began throwing punches. It was all rather humiliating; but a few days later Charles got a name that sounded a good deal nicer than mean old Fatty...
...Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Charles Philip Arthur George can also look forward to being Earl of Chester and Knight of the Garter. The last Englishman to hold such honors: the former Edward VIII, now Duke of Windsor, whose classmates at the Royal Naval College at Osborne would on occasion ignominiously guillotine him in a partly opened window -in stern reminder of the fate of Charlie I, a King who stepped on too many toes...
...artists only, met in a loft in Greenwich Village, debated: "What is abstract art in the good sense?'' "How do you know when a work is finished?" "Why put a title on a painting?" Though no agreement was reached, each artist found his canvas recording a battle royal in which the brush strokes, drippings and splatter were visual records of his ordeal...