Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sauvé was first elected to the Quebec legislature in 1930, taking a seat his father had held since 1907. In the 1944 election he piled up a record majority from 3,000 miles away in Normandy-where he was a lieutenant colonel in Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal. He made his reputation as the super-efficient minister of social welfare and youth. He is a natty bon vivant who made a million on the stock market...
...Braemar, Scotland, Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Anne dressed the part of wee royal Scots, looked appropriately braw and bonny, as they watched the Highland Games...
...Chinese, Turks, Russians or what have you." To the granny London Times it was apparent that "what Diaghilev did for a past generation of balletgoers, Robbins is doing now. [He] is evolving the valid balletic idiom of today." And the Guardian's James Monaghan, after rapping the Royal Ballet for its "ivory-towered conception of the dance," concluded that what Robbins had brought to town was "the best foreign ballet by far that London has ever seen...
...lawn of the British Legation in Peking on the afternoon of June 20, 1900, a sergeant reported to the officer commanding the Royal Light Infantry guarding the legation: "Sir, the firing has commenced." The Chinese empire had begun a last feeble fight against the yang kuei-tzu (foreign devils), who had turned China into one of history's great grab bags. In half a century, seven powers had taken eleven bases in China and split 13 of the 18 provinces into "spheres of influence," a gentlemanly phrase for the control of China's trade and government...
...tribute to the late Ethel Barry-more, the Tufts Theatre concluded the season with The Royal Family. George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber wrote this play 32 years ago as an affectionate spoof of the whole Barrymore family in the Twenties when it was the reigning theatrical dynasty...