Word: viceroy
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Rioli) and the Spanish viceroy himself (Duncan Lamont...
...viceroy then makes his move: he makes Camilla a present of his golden coach of state. His council protests. At their threat to depose him, the viceroy yields. But Camilla gives them all the sharp edge of her tongue, whirls away in the coach before anybody can stop her, and yields herself to the athletic embraces of the matador...
...India, he let himself in for some unexpected complications. Spending their first night on Indian soil, Bowles, his wife and their three younger children huddled together in one room of Bombay's Taj Mahal Hotel, awed and made uncomfortable by the five barn-sized rooms of the viceroy suite, in which their attendants had distributed them. Bowles faced his first formal call on President Rajendra
...same Middle East deserts where centuries later Field Marshal Wavell rode with Allenby. Wavell of Cyrenaica was the one-eyed professional soldier, author and poet who smashed the Italians in North Africa (1940) only to lose to Rommel, who commanded Singapore until it fell (1942), governed India as viceroy (1943-47). His fate had been to fight the early delaying actions when Britain was behind. Fighting for the Empire, he had lost an eye; his son had lost a hand in World War II. The son died last week unmarried and childless-the last of the Wavell line. The title...
...filter will be bucking some heavy competition. Though the filter cigarettes sold last year (close to 5 billion) were only 1.1% of total U.S. consumption, they were 58% more than in 1951, and sales this year are running at least double those of 1952. Brown & Williamson's Viceroy, the only one priced at only a penny or so more than regular cigarettes, recently came out in king size (80 mm. v. 75 mm.), filter and all, proved so popular that B. & W. has not been able to keep up with demand. Viceroy, which sold 2.7 billion cigarettes last year...