Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...procession should be the shortest possible and his Coronation ritual the simplest possible. Soon announced was an official route so short that the only way to make the publicly visible part of the Coronation any shorter would be to cut from Buckingham Palace straight across the park to Westminster Abbey. Seat prices along the official route promptly soared last week to as much as $200 for a small chair on a precarious roof ledge. In a patriotic effort not to profiteer, one London firm offered armchair seats in its shop windows for only $150 each, including sandwiches and coffee...
...multiple monarch, separately King of each "country," separately acting upon the advice of its Premier. Therefore by royal command last week the age-old Coronation ceremonial will be overhauled and altered enough to make each Dominion feel that its King is being crowned as such in Westminster Abbey on May 12, 1937. Further, His Majesty let it be understood that there is no reason why a multiple monarch should spend all his time in the British Isles and that he intends to betake himself to all his Dominions and to India from time to time. During such absences Queen Mary...
...first levee of Edward VIIIth reign, held at Buckingham Palace. April 2 spent two hours instead of the customary two days receiving the Privileged Bodies of Great Britain, the Clergy, university officials etc. April 9 revived the disused custom of personally distributing "Maundy Money" to the poor in Westminster Abbey. April 20 cabled congratulations to Adolf Hitler on the Realmleader's birthday. April jo on the death of King Fuad of Egypt received his successor King Farouk, a youth in school in England, prior to the new King's departure for Cairo. May g encouraged the Covent Garden...
...names Yeats chiefly honors are the late Lady Gregory and John Millington Synge, whose plays did as much as his own to make Ireland proud of the Abbey Theatre and the world aware of it. But the name that crops up oftenest is that of his early collaborator, onetime friend and longtime enemy, George Moore. To Lady Gregory, Yeats owed not simply a colleague's loyalty but a more personal debt. When he was a young man of 30 and she a widow of 45 they met, and she rescued him from the slough of "a miserable love affair...
...stingy, stupid, lecherous George II stopped the feet-washing entirely, refused even to watch the almsgiving. British repugnance for the "awful Georges" was notably obliterated by the late George V, who four years ago revived the King's personal role in the old rite, watched in Westminster Abbey while his Almoner distributed doeskin purses of scarlet & white thongs to 67 hand-picked old men of the Parish of Westminster, 67 old women, the King being 67 years old. Since a set of specially minted Maundy Pence is a coin collectors' item worth $1, the old folks...