Word: bestow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...roughly equal number of seats be won by each of the three parties, then after the election there might be formed any one of three different coalitions-Conservative-Liberal, Liberal-Laborite, or Conservative-Laborite-to carry on the Government. The King-Emperor would be obliged (by custom) to bestow the supreme political office of Prime Minister on any man designated by any party or coalition able to control a majority of votes in the House. Upon such seeming quicksands as these how shall one even lay the lightest...
...Abyssinia and its remote capital, Addis Ababa. Of assistance in thawing the suspicious Regent's reserve was a huge, shiny Issota-Fraschini limousine, a de luxe Italian product which sells in the U. S. for some $18,000. This limousine and many another gift did the Duke of Abruzzi bestow...
...peers were created by the King-Emperor, last week, but George V, perhaps with "nothing in particular to do," did bestow the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of The Thistle upon the father of the most popular young woman in England. The young woman is Elizabeth Duchess of York, only daughter-in-law of His Majesty, and mother of the nationally adored "Baby Betty...
...occasion of your Imperial Highness's coronation. I have great pleasure in offering you most cordial congratulations on the signal honor which her Majesty the Empress has been pleased to bestow upon you." "George...
...most scurrilous cartoon of British Queen Victoria was openly guffawed at by "King Louis Philippe III of France," the cousin and predecessor of the present "King Jean III." Since the Royal Guffawer is now dead and the cartoon forgotten, it was easy, last week, for their Britannic Majesties to bestow gracious hospitality upon Dauphin Henri, a handsome youth of 20, who is now an undergraduate at the famed Belgian University of Louvain...