Word: consort
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...active religious order for Portuguese knights and preserved today only as a titular papal honor. Though no U. S. personage holds the cross of this order, others honored with it include onetime (1919-22) President Dr. Epitacio Pessoa of Brazil and Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, Consort of Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg (TIME, April...
...been host*to the Olympians refused to honor them. But last week Queen Wilhelmina voiced the equivalent of a refusal. Firm, logical, pious, she declared her intention of spending a two-months' holiday in Scandinavia. Prudent, she will leave behind to inaugurate the godless Olympiad, her useful Prince Consort, Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin...
...delectable. But the gods, jealous of mortal contentment, sent a pestilence-the evil of goodness. Infected by goodness, mortals grew dull and spiritless as they debated dismally the line between good and evil. Their old tendency toward pleasures took vent in debauch, and the gods cared no longer to consort with them...
...Tobin. Presently Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands bade Sir Austen to come and take dinner at the unpretentious, neatly painted mansion which serves as Her Majesty's palace. Placid Dutch courtiers admitted that Crown Princess Juliana, 19, is beginning to ponder whether she should take as a useful consort one of the British King-Emperor's younger sons: Prince Henry, 28, or Prince George...
...will of 78% of her 250,000 subjects, the Grand Duchess Charlotte, 32, reigns and rules over Luxembourg. Her richly wooded and softly meadowed realm dozes complacently between Belgium and Germany. Her capital, the City of Luxembourg, rises aloof and serene upon a small plateau. Her mild and irreproachable consort is Prince Felix de Bourbon-Parma. Last week a dire project was under way to introduce into this quiet Eden a prodigious roisterer, a mighty brawler, a veritable Serpent...