Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Starch & Gold. Thus began the carefully timed, almost agonizing round of greetings, luncheons, dinners, toasts, receptions, balls, meetings and tours for the royal couple. With scarcely enough time between official functions to change from one stylish dress to another (she never wore the same attire twice), Queen Elizabeth usually managed not to appear exhausted, foot-tired and hand-sore. And Washington, D.C., thrumming with true excitement, turned out with starched dickeys and flowing gowns to do her justice...
When the hollow sound and meaningful fury of the Second World War had died away, a mature young British Columbian lawyer, who had served in the Royal Canadian army for five years, was weary of the din, and reflective, and not quite ready to go back to his law practice. So Captain John J. Conway, a company commander at the heroic Battle of Monte Cassino and winner of the Military Cross, left the colorful regimental kilts of the Seaforth Highlanders and came to Harvard to study history...
...Smiling, more poised than during her 1951 visit as a princess, she stepped down the ramp, followed by her bareheaded husband Philip (see FOREIGN NEWS). She accepted greetings from Governor General Vincent Massey and Prime Minister Diefenbaker, and a curtsy from Mrs. Diefenbaker. A Plexiglas-topped convertible whisked the royal couple to Rideau Hall, official residence of Governors General, where that night Elizabeth and Philip received 600 newsmen and their wives. To one of his visitors Philip gave a level look and demanded: "Who are you?" "I'm the man whose flashlight bulb exploded near you," gulped the photographer...
...sound playwright, Schiller begins virtually at the end-with the Queen of Scots' rash, stormy, ill-starred life behind her and the peers condemning her to death. The play itself, though aswirl with intrigue, assassination plots and lust-devoured deliverers, really turns on whether Mary's royal cousin Elizabeth will sign the death warrant. The scene shifts back and forth between Mary (Irene Worth) in her castle prison and an autocratic but waveringly feminine Elizabeth (Eva Le Gallienne) in her palace. By shrugging at geography as well as history, Schiller once lets the two Queens confront each other...
...wife, Egypt's Princess Fawzia, sister of ex-King Farouk); and Ardashir Zahedi, 28, U.S.-educated agricultural engineer, son of ex-Premier Fazlollah Zahedi (who helped to boot out weepy Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953 and was later himself edged out on charges of corruption); in Teheran's Royal Palace...