Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Further to please Queen Mary, Baron Dawson of Penn, the physician who pulled George V through pneumonia (TIME, April 8, 1929) and attended him in his last hours, was created by Edward VIII last week a Viscount, the highest rank figuring this year in the King's birthday honors. Baronies went to Chairman J. B. W. Pease of Lloyd's Bank, to the Indian United Provinces' retired Governor...
King Edward on his 42nd birthday morn looked out on a London in which almost every one of his male subjects wore a daisy, buttercup, pansy or garden rose in his buttonhole to honor His Majesty. These simple flowers were worn by Edward VIII's express wish that his birthday should not become a "florists' racket." It was more correct to wear a posy plucked in one's own garden than the costliest gardenia...
...Grenadier Guards. A thunderstorm threatened, the morning was muggy-hot and to wear a busby was to be almost drowned in sweat, but His Majesty's duty was clear. Clapping on a great, hot bearskin busby, King Edward swung onto his chestnut charger, rode off to observe his birthday by a ceremonial trooping of the color followed by booming salutes...
...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 Opera season by leasing a box, though he attended no operas up to last...
June 23 the birthday of His Majesty occasioned feature articles throughout the world, the conservative New York Herald Tribune dubbing him "The Streamlined King" after alluding respectfully to His Majesty's "flat stomach" and weight...