Word: royaliste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rome news of the attempted assassination brought Royalist and Fascist crowds surging to the gates of Italy's Royal Palace, and to the office of II Duce, who appeared upon a balcony, flag in hand, and gave what Fascist newspapers described as "a personal demonstration of rejoicing and loyalty...
...high grew Fascist tension that on Prince Umberto's return to Italy he felt obliged to respond to cheering with the Fascist salute. Previously H. R. H., like other young Royalist officers, has used the military salute. Standing on a balcony of the Royal Palace in Milan, while a Fascist mob made pandemonium below, the Heir of Italy for the first time raised his right arm stiff-elbowed and with palm extended, aped II Duce...
...Saratzeanu for having been elected by Parliament to a vacancy among the three Regents of Rumania (TIME, Oct. 21), a vacancy which she had dearly coveted. As Her Majesty's special train chuffed off toward Balcic all Rumania gasped at an interview blazoned above her name by the Royalist newspaper Universal: "The royal family does not even know what it means to strive for honors and privileges. We do not need such distinctions. We are where we are to do our duty. That is all." Followed a charge that Peasant Prime Minister Juliu Maniu had offered to wangle...
...pine-clad rock just outside of Linz is feudal Schloss Waxenberg, subject of Linz's most popular post cards, hereditary fief of proud Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. Linz's industrial population is heartily Socialist. Prince Ernst, lord of Schloss Waxenberg, is loudly, violently Royalist. Unlike most Austrian princes he is still rich. Despite the cordial hatred of Linz factory workers, he is treated with the greatest deference and respect by Linz's old inhabitants, Linz's municipal authorities...
...engages a Russian Count to preside over his kitchen. The Count is Molinoff, a person of glamor. Molinoff forgets he is cook, remembers only he is count. He spends a few stolen hours every day with Anne and Françoise, young daughters of a neighboring poor-but-proud royalist family. Françoise, unlike Anne, has no bent for politics. Her energy is of the 1929 vintage. "In her arms and legs, movement lay coiled, as in the springs of a watch." When Molinoff smokes his fragrant cigarets, drinks his whiskey & soda, she does the same. When he plays Negro jazz...