Word: courtier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Come, Good Bride." Michael and Anne spent the last few days before their wedding in leisure; one afternoon they watched the demonstration of a new British jet plane. "The only thing that took Michael's interest off Annie," remarked a courtier, "was that plane. The rest of the time they held hands...
...Spaak lives simply in a modest bourgeois neighborhood, with his tall, good-looking wife, his son Fernand (who served in the British navy) and his two younger daughters. He used to be an inveterate tennis player, once was tactless enough to beat King Gustaf of Sweden ("Am I a courtier? I am a Socialist!"). Lately Spaak (a 200-pounder) has given up the sport, presumably haunted by the memory of his belt giving way on a Brussels court...
...more interested members of the audience will discern a plot snuggling its way into the epic. It now appears that Robert Donat has been dancing altogether too many quadrilles with the queen, who is not incongruously impersonated by Binnie Barnes Donat, who happens to be playing an innocuous courtier named Cromwell, seems to have a prior claim, but after a few innocent bearhugs, he and Binnie go the way of all people Henry knew, and the latter, in the absence of a psychiatrist, marries again. But his spirit is broken; his chicken salad days are gone, and he ends...
...Veteran diplomat and courtier Tsuneo Matsudaira, 68, resigned as Imperial Household Minister. Ex-Ambassador to Washington and London, father-in-law of the Emperor's brother Prince Chichibu, the suave, gin-drinking, golf-playing elder statesman was regarded as one of the last "moderate" influences around the throne. He was succeeded by ex-Finance Minister Sotaro Ishiwata, good friend of the militarists...
Burden of Shame. Before the day was out, the plump, myopic Son of Heaven called a trusted Court attendant and Elder Statesman, aging (77) Admiral Baron Kantaro Suzuki, President of the Privy Council, to form a new Government. On the stooped shoulders of this wrinkled old courtier might well rest the shameful bur den of leading Japan to surrender...