Word: viceroy
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...Harvard undergraduate has won a green Ford Thunderbird sportscar and a 21-inch R.C.A. Deluxe color television set by taking one of the ten top prizes in the Viceroy filter-tip naming contest. The prizewinner, Dan H. Hinz, '56 of Lowell House, said that he would probably keep neither...
...Ruler's Way came lumbering elephants with blue foreheads and flowers painted on their hindquarters, bearded Sikhs in bright turbans, Madras Regiment soldiers behind their famed fifes and drums, felt-hatted Gurkhas. At Nehru's side was his good friend Lady Mountbatten, wife of the last British Viceroy. Afterwards Nehru told a group of young army trainees: "Redistribution of states is only, after all, for administrative convenience. There is no finality . . . a decision can be changed...
...meaning Very High Big Honorable Officer of the King. Similarly honored was another servant of Empire: Britain's onetime Laborite Colonial Undersecretary, Lord Ogmore. And just to show who was who's beloved brother, the Burmese gave the Duke of Edinburgh's uncle, Earl Mountbatten, last Viceroy of India, the highest title of all: Agga Maha Thiri Thu Dhamma, or Very High Big Honorable Follower of the Righteous Path...
...like briefcases and that aversion to sex which most Britons have had since they became neighbors of the French. "Do as I did," Ursula's mother advises, "just close your eyes and think of England!" After Ursula has taken her last toss ("She fell at Bombay in the Viceroy's Cup, when the hurdle had been put up to six feet"), Widower Marmaduke marries a typical Frenchwoman named Martine, the tenderest strand of honeysuckle that ever twined round a rock of Gibraltar. Martine has none of Ursula's stamina at lacrosse, but on the field...
...Named for gallant Count Bernardo de Galvez (1746-86), Spanish governor of Louisiana and viceroy of Mexico. His motto, now Galveston's: Yo solo (I alone...