Word: royaliste
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...Mani. Indeed, Mavromichalis was a Maniot who, in countless forays against the Turks, lost 49 relatives. He nailed the heads of Turks whom he killed around his own tower until it was studded with skulls. In the light of their rebel heritage, the Maniots of today are remarkably royalist. In private homes, Fermor found pictures of Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika right next to those of George VI and Elizabeth II. In one Maniot home, such pictures were flanked by a 1926 fashion advertisement of the "Be Smart Tailors of Madison Avenue...
Died. Lucy Madeira Wing. 87, founder in 1906 and headmistress for 51 years of suburban Washington's prim and academically rigorous Madeira School for girls, a New Dealer who hoped that well-supported public schools (maximum size of classes: 15) would eventually supersede her own "economic royalist" Madeira-type institution; after a stroke; in Washington...
Died. Georges Claude. 89. called "the Edison of France," a pioneer in the use of liquid air and rare gases, inventor in 1910 of the neon light; of a heart attack; in St.Cloud. France. A political royalist, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1945 for wartime collaboration with the Nazis, was paroled 4½ years later...
...most of them the event is joyful and important. Sudbury, Ont. has been torn for weeks over whether or not the Queen's route should take her past the old people's home. A note of outrage was sounded in the Montreal Gazette when an indignant royalist reader protested against Canada's No. 1 hit song, The Battle of New Orleans, a catchy Tin Pan Alley jape about the rout of the British in the War of 1812: "I do suggest that this song be removed from the radio before Her Majesty's visit; otherwise...
...demand that something be done about Leopold spread even to the Catholic Royalist newspaper, Het Volk, which had stood gamely by him during the pre-abdication days, but now grumbled that Cabinet ministers were being humiliated and sabotaged by "someone" at the royal court. Last week Leopold summoned Premier Eyskens to Laeken palace, began by blustering that the press attack on him "has to stop!" ended by saying resignedly that "I will leave Laeken; you must find me another place to live." Leopold's preference: the 18th century Villa Belvedere, just across the street from Laeken, once (under...