Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honorary. Queen Victoria graciously presented the Knights and Ladies with a royal charter, and Edward VII and George V have served successively as Sovereign Head and Patron of this Victorian revival. In consequence of such royal patronage, British warships will be required to fire an official salute upon the approach of the knightly-cruise ship, which is scheduled to leave for the Mediterranean in March...
...None the less I personally chopped down my own Christmas tree and superintended its decoration. Later I donned the full regalia of a Prussian Feldmarschall, inspected the servants' quarters and distributed gifts among the domestic staff. With the approach of evening I clapped a black skull cap upon my head, and delivered a sermon on the Nativity to an audience composed of Hermine (my wife), Wilhelm and members of the Dutch nobility. Finally Hermine and I seated ourselves upon an improvised throne in the Great Hall. Behind us was placed a huge scowling bust of Frederick the Great. I presented...
...Munsey forbade smoking in all his newspaper offices. Reporters would have preferred to be denied almost any other implement of their craft, but he paid them well and they were content to bribe elevator boys to warn them of the Big Chief's approach. Occasionally, however, when they were forced to lavatories for their smoke, they would refer unpleasantly to the Mohican Chain Stores, and among younger men the impression got about that Frank A. Munsey was the world's greatest grocery man, and a newspaper man only by grace of tin cans. Had they never heard the big story...
...that they were able freely and safely to circulate in the streets of this centre of Catholicism, they cannot but have noticed that the same cannot be said of the Vicar of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Father of all the Faithful, whom they were unable to approach and see except by crossing the threshold which He himself, so long as present conditions continue, neither can nor must cross...
...hearing the national anthem of his country played when he visited President Doumergue. For 50 days M. Rakovsky has been vowing that he would never call on M. le Président at all unless assured that the "Internationale" would blare from the Elysée at his approach...