Word: savoyism
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...continuation of Italy's 85-year-old monarchy. Finally, at 3 a.m., the puffy-eyed delegates of Italy's strongest party voted 3-to-1 against. Though heavily Catholic, they thus defied the present royalist policy of the Vatican (which had itself once opposed the scions of Savoy when their drive for Italy's political unification jeopardized Papal power...
After the show the Savoy Grill looked like an acre of diamonds. To Britons who had waited long for an excuse to make a good, old-fashioned night of it, it was obviously Better Late than never...
...Shirley-Savoy Hotel ballroom, Barbara & friends watched with a professional air as sister delegates demonstrated good manners. Everyone enjoyed most the skits showing horrible examples (see cut). The skit which got the loudest applause: "Monopolizing the Telephone while the Rest of the Family Wait...
...Berkshire; then, in London, with the help of extra coupons from the Board of Trade, he bought all the extra clothes he would need. He called on Queen Mary, lunched with George VI and Queen Elizabeth, stood in the rain to review Canadian troops. He was honored at a Savoy dinner, saw a son through a siege of mumps. He said his formal farewell to Great Britain when, at a Guildhall ceremony, he was made a Freeman of the City of London...
...General Wladyslaw Anders, commanding the Polish Army in Italy, flew to London from his headquarters last week. He was turned away from the Savoy by a clerk who had never heard of him, finally found a room elsewhere. Two days later he sat grimly listening to Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin explain that the Anders army must be disbanded at once...