Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With bitter, rhymed invective Pact Patriot Rudyard Kipling last week flayed the Cabinet of Socialist-Pacifist James Ramsay MacDonald for suggesting in a recent diplomatic note to other governments that "distinguished visitors" be discouraged from incessantly laying wreaths on the Cenotaph and the Westminster Abbey tomb of "The Unknown Soldier." Excerpt from the new four stanza poem...
...entertainment just listening to a lot of good Irish ac cents. Happily, Miss Hayes did not at tempt the brogue. Arthur Sinclair (McDonnell), 47, is a Dubliner by birth, studied for the bar, abandoned the legal profession when he was 17 to join the famed Irish Players at the Abbey theatre. In 1911 he made his U. S. debut in The Rising of the Moon. He later appeared in The Playboy of the Western World. At the premiere a large body of truculent, transplanted Hibernians rioted in the theatre, tossed overripe fruit & vegetables at the actors because the play presented...
...upon him, and at last he languidly courts a proper match. Against his will he takes part in the coronation of George V. and Queen Mary, and during its wearisome ceremonies feels that his career as an individual is ended, his career as a peer commenced. Then outside the Abbey he abruptly encounters Anquetil, returned from the jungle to marry Viola on the strength of a six-year correspondence. Anquetil renews his invitation for an exploring expedition. Sebastian accepts. The story ends with an intimation that under the new monarch will come new manners, and the brilliant, flighty society that...
...Wartime Austrian naval commander, a sizeable delegation of Austrian royalists traveled to the ancient Benedictine monastery of Tihany, Hungary, to dedicate there a new group of the 14 stations of the cross in memory of ex-Emperor Karl, Franz Josef's grandnephew and successor, who was arrested in Tihany Abbey in 1921 after his second unsuccessful attempt to regain the throne...
Westminster Abbey belongs to the Empire (even to the world because of its "poets' corner"), but St. Paul's Cathedral is London's own. Standing in the heart of The City, according to legend on the site of an ancient Roman temple to Diana, its high golden cross is a landmark tor freighters on the Thames and for tourists on Fleet Street...