Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, no secret in Britain that George Brown sometimes takes a drink-or that a drink sometimes takes him. On other occasions, he has shown what was considered undue familiarity with members of the royal family (he once even asked Princess Margaret for a kiss). At a farewell party aboard the Queen Mary last month, he frugged with a series of ladies and reportedly nibbled the ear of one. The photographers loved it, and London's tabloids splashed the pictures across their front pages. The photographers were back in force last week looking for more...
Chain of Enigma. In flight from Nazi Germany, she went to Sweden in 1940 through the combined efforts of a member of the Swedish royal family and famed Novelist Selma Lagerlöf, herself a Nobel winner. At 48, the refugee brought with her only an aged mother and the numbness induced by terror. Physically, she was so small that she was at first billeted in a children's home. The daughter of an inventor and industrialist, she had written some poems that were totally commonplace and mostly unpublished. Now, galvanized by the experience of her people, she began...
...sure that the America's Cup will remain at the New York Yacht Club for at least three more years. The ease of Intrepid'?, victory did not discourage other challengers. No sooner were the races over than two challenges for 1970 were received-from Britain's Royal Dorset Yacht Club and France's Yacht Club d'Hyeres...
Wrong Residents. Gibraltarians feel that life under British rule is far freer and more prosperous than life in Franco's Spain, have developed a British sense of fair play and justice and an almost embarrassing devotion to the royal family. By ancestry most of them are neither British nor Spanish. Some are Sephardic Jews originally expelled from Spain during the Inquisition; others fled Genoa in the 1790s to escape the havoc of the Napoleonic Wars; many came from Malta to seek work in the British dockyards. Over the years, they have developed into a surprisingly homogeneous population...
Tight Weave. Though Cohen him self refuses to don a kilt, his company owes much to the traditional attire of the Scotsman. There are now an estimated 250 tartans that Cohen can choose from, but he leans toward such old standards as Royal Stewart and Black Watch...