Word: savoyism
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...knows as well as Tancredi that in the spring of 1860 bourgeois boots are on the march from the Alps to Africa. Garibaldi is at the gates of Palermo, the Bourbons will soon abandon Naples, most of Italy within a year will be unified under the House of Savoy. He knows that boots must be licked, or boots will trample his beloved roses and his noble name into the burning yellow dust of Sicily. He knows-but can a Prince of Salina swallow his pride to save his estates? Can a Leopard change his spots to save his skin...
...often reminds us. Demurely and discreetly, she was a girl on the Victorian make. Her turn came in the second act's "Tight Little Craft" sequence when, with a Maiden At Prayer expression transfixing her lovely visage, Miss Campbell executed a kick step which was far more Minsky than Savoy...
...appetite could only be satisfied by a number of men." He named four specific adulterers: John Cohane, 50, a U.S. businessman living in Ireland whom the court described as a "self-confessed wolf" with "the morals of a tomcat"; Harvey Combe, 37. onetime press officer at London's Savoy Hotel; Baron Sigismund von Braun. 52, brother of Rocket Scientist Wernher, who was counselor of West Germany's London embassy until 1958, and is now his government's U.N. observer in New York; and an unidentified partner who had been photographed in the nude with the duchess...
Born. To Maria Pia, 28, Princess Royal of the House of Savoy, daughter of ex-King Umberto of Italy, and Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, 38: a twin boy and girl, their third son and first daughter, second set of twins; in Paris...
...French are a family people, and the Alps in Savoy were beginning to look like the gathering of the clan. At Meribel-les-Allues was Brigitte Bardot, just divorced again, and her ever-steady Sami Frey. Just a yodel away at Megève was her ex-husband. Director Roger (And God Created Woman) Vadim, 35, with his constant protegee and fiancée of 18 months, pert Cinemactress Catherine Deneuve, 19, who blissfully posed for photographers and even offered the reporter from Paris-Presse her secret clue to success. "To keep the love of a man," said...