Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Standing in Westminster Abbey, Sir Roger de Coverley found himself seized with a great desire to sit on the throne which had held so many kings, just to see how it felt. After he had done so, he was perfectly satisfied, and spent the rest of the day giving forth snatches of history as they came into his mind...
...Page" will take its place with the names of the illustrious in the Abbey...
...Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey complied with the request made by the Earl of Balfour, Lloyd George, Asquith, Bonar Law-three past and one present Prime Minister-and Lord Grey-former Foreign Secretary-to erect a memorial to the war-time American Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...replied Mr. MacNeill, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, "the Government is not aware that the body of his late Majesty is in the tomb!" Another wag solemnly inquired whether any request had come from Egyptians to dig among the tombs of British Kings and Queens in Westminster Abbey, and what reply would be made to it? A disgusted Under-Secretary merely glared...
...some experts in sentiment it has seemed as irreverent thus to exhume with curiosity what was buried with honor as to disinter the bodies of the kings in Westminster Abbey. But, strangely enough, this prying into the past does not violate Egyptian tradition. The ancient faith released the spirit of the dead from the tomb after three thousand years; in the days of Martin Luther, then, the ghost of Pharaoh deserted the inner chamber, and only the mummy's empty shell remained...