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Word: royalities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...added attraction of a raised ridge at toe level, which is designed to slim ankles and strengthen leg muscles. The Scholl sandals tend to pitch the wearer forward, but Cecil Beaton does not care. Neither do Scholl-shod Jackie Onassis, Jean Shrimpton and all of England's Royal Ballet Company. Greta Garbo clomps around sidewalks in Swedish clogs; so do Dustin Hoffman and the trapeze troupe from Ringling Bros, circus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Cloggy Days | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...told a navy cook after tasting his fried potatoes. "We don't have any chips there." Not so, a palace spokesman hastened to reassure all the kingdom's chip fanciers. "It's not a case of chips with everything, but I'm sure the royal family do have chips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 8, 1969 | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

When Britain's King George III died in 1820, he was blind, deaf and apparently mad. His physicians, limited in their medical knowledge and hindered by protocol in examining their royal patient (they could not inquire how he felt unless he spoke to them first), had long since concluded that the King was "under an entire alienation of mind." George III went down in history as the mad monarch, a judgment accepted by generations of historians and buttressed by psychiatric studies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heredity: Royal Malady | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...also explain the mysterious deaths of several of his ancestors and collateral relatives, including James I's son Henry and George's sister Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway. Both were rumored to have been poisoned by close relatives. Both actually may have died of the royal malady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heredity: Royal Malady | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...speech is a fairly good indication of the general level of wit to be found in Putney Swope, a frenzied, almost desperate comedy by a barely emerged underground film maker named Robert Downey. Downey-who bills himself in the credits as "a prince"-has got it into his royal head that what America really needs at this point in its history is another put-down of the advertising business. Accordingly, he has come up with the not totally unpromising notion of a group of black militants taking over an ad agency and bombarding the country with race propaganda concealed inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sinking the Boat | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

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