Word: droite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compared to the lust inspired in him by a winsome peasant girl, Rosemary Forsyth. He needs her, he explains, as he needs bread, sunshine, fire in winter. Honor. Well, blast honor. He claims the lass on the very day of her marriage to a husky serf, invoking the ancient droit du seigneur whereby a nobleman may claim ''the right of the first night" with any bride in his domain. The local priest (Maurice Evans) fusses a bit, suggesting that he choose another virgin, but his lordship will have none of them...
...levied two quid For the terrible thing that he did, But one M.P.'s quibble Was "What's good for Dame Sybil Must be good for each Sark invalid." Dame Sybil disdained his appeals, Only she could have motorized wheels. Her parliament said Sure To her droit du seigneur, No matter how other folk feels. ∙∙∙ With classic British nonchalance. Actor James Mason, 53. and his estranged wife Pamela, 44, launched a laconic legal battle in a Santa Monica court to divvy up the spoils of their marriage. Pamela demanded an allowance...
...retaliatory blow by exploding a 22-lb. plastic bomb in an inner courtyard of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, killing a mail clerk and wounding ten bystanders. During a single day, S.A.O. bombs were detonated at the homes of a distinguished cross section of Paris intellectuals, including TV Commentator Michel Droit, Gaullist Senator Louis Vigier, and Hubert Beuve-Méry, owner of Le Monde. With scathing contempt, Beuve-Méry accused the S.A.O. of setting off its bombs at a time "when the men supposed to be the targets are not usually at home but when their wives...
...suicide before he could be tried. But Trujillo went on to become boss of the Dominican armed forces, a position he used to make himself President in 1930. "God & Trujillo." No absolute ruler-not even France's Sun King-was more foppishly vain. Applying his own version of droit du seigneur, Trujillo took three wives, countless mistresses. Scattered about his peanut-sized fief were twelve palaces and ranches at which a full staff of servants faithfully prepared every meal every day just in case the master dropped in. At each mansion, Trujillo kept a full wardrobe of uniforms complete...
...story of the three Mirabal sisters that El Cáribe did not tell. The story began with Minerva, 32, who reportedly caught the Dictator's eye some years ago when she was a pretty university student. When Trujillo tried to exercise his Dominican version of droit du seigneur, Minerva's response was a stinging slap on the face. Shortly thereafter, both Minerva and her middle-aged father were jailed, Minerva briefly, her father for two years before he was released -to die 15 days later of a combination of malnutrition, beatings and general misuse. The sisters...