Word: royalistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...therefore ludicrous that the royalist press of Paris should greet the new Ambassador with stormy reminders of the fact that he was once married to a lady who was once married to John Reed, a U. S. Communist buried in a niche of the Kremlin at Moscow, and with the surprising observation that Mr. Bullitt's late mother was a half-Jewess whose maiden name was Louisa Gross Horwitz. Imperturbably commented Cousin Logan Bullitt last week in Philadelphia: "I have always had a very definite impression that Bill's mother was part Jewish...
...Sanfelice" is a beautiful and thrilling book. The heroine, La Sanfelice herself, an impoverished nobelwoman whose sympathies in the Neapolitan Revolution are naturally aristocratic but who accidentally betrays a royalist counter-revolution and becomes the toast and symbol of the Jacobin cause, comes to life in these pages. Her dissolute husband, her lover Fernando, her nephew Lauriano, are specimens in the fine art of re-creating historical characters. The personal histories of this quartet, and that of Don Gerardo Baker, are fascinatingly unfolded against the grim pageant of Naples torn by civil strife...
...Unless you're ready to subscribe to the New Deal 100% and sign your name on the dotted line you're a Tory, you're a prince of privilege, you're a reactionary, or you're an economic royalist. Now, my dear ladies, bear in mind that ... the smear department of the [Democratic] National Committee will be working overtime tonight to see if it isn't possible to tie you all up to the predatory interests...
Prime New Deal propaganda was a recent New Yorker cartoon which pictured a plump, baldish economic royalist murmuring to a reluctant, expensive young woman: "And if Roosevelt is not reelected, perhaps even a villa in Newport, my dearest sweet...
...Most royalist and loyalist of British Dominions statesmen is handsome, dynamic and air-minded Stanley Melbourne Bruce, onetime Premier of Australia and now the High Commissioner in London of the Dominion's Cabinet. At Bristol last week an English audience cheered Mr. Bruce to the echo when he declared that the Dominions ought to pay more than they do now of the terrific bills the Mother Country is running up for armaments. "You can rely," cried Orator Bruce, "that there will be recognition in Australia that they have got to make their contribution...