Word: royalist
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...uses her eyes, mouth and bosom so effectively that it soon becomes clear that she was born too late. Back in the disreputable old days of silent movies, when sex was sex, she would have become a major star very fast. Today, she seems as anachronistic as a Virginia royalist. But it is a pleasure to watch her work...
Died. René Benjamin, 63, Royalist French novelist and essayist, who charmed his countrymen during World War I with Gaspard and Grandgoujon, outraged them during the occupation with Le Printemps Tragique, an attack on the Third Republic; following an operation; in Tours, France...
...body was found floating in Salonika Bay on May 16. The corpse was bound with 30 feet of rope and had a bullet wound in the base of the skull. While serving as a Columbia Broadcasting System correspondent in Greece, Polk had been an outspoken critic of the Greek Royalist government...
Died. Georges Bernanos, 60, royalist French novelist who blamed his country's ills on it & bourgeoisie; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Paris. An ardent Roman Catholic, Bernanos in 1936 won the French Academy's Grand Prix with Diary of a Country Priest...
Simply Dreadful. Miss Madeira, one of Washington's last New Dealers, thinks it "simply dreadful" that most of her students must come from "economic royalist" families.* Returning from vacation, the daughter of a West Virginia mine operator once told the headmistress: "My father likes everything about your school except your ideas...