Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scandal, a case of insanity or an illegitimacy back for centuries. In Japan such precautions are important: Akihito's own mother almost lost out as fiancée to her crown prince when a rival accused her of being color-blind and insisted that she would taint the royal line...
...jacket clogged with enough medals for a NATO division, Wagnerian-size Tenor Lauritz Melchior chatted with Denmark's King Frederik IX at a celebration in Copenhagen of the Royal Guard's 300th anniversary. A guardsman himself in his nimble youth, Melchior crossed the Atlantic for a month's vacation in the old country with a 40-man delegation of Danish-American Guard grads, sang out loud and clear at the parade and at a festive veterans' dinner in the Tivoli Gardens...
...trip to victory, Harvard defeated the Twickenham Rowing Club, Kent (Connecticut) School, and Washington and Lee High School of Arlington, Virginia on successive days, and the Royal Air Force Benson Rowing Club on the morning of the final encounter...
...best in the rough autumn winds expected off Newport when the cup races start in September. "We fed statistics about Rhode Island conditions into our calculations," said Test-Tank Superintendent Bill Crago, who helped choose the winner from the eight designs submitted to Britain's Royal Yacht Squadron. "Out came Sceptre...
...Lord Nelson is the name given in Royal Navy wardrooms to a poker hand containing three Jacks. In the British tradition of understatement, this may or may not bear reference to the fact that Horatio, Lord Nelson, was a man with one eye, one arm and one idea-to beat the French. The latest and one of the best of the great sailor's biographies logs in scholarly detail the main tacks of a gusty life that carried him to the top of the column in London's Trafalgar Square-not to mention the Nelson monument in Dublin...