Word: consorts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reported to have in mind seating beside himself on the Throne of Greece his sister Helen, the gracious royal female for whom King George & Queen Mary have most sympathy. The language in which George V invariably refers to how beauteous Helen was treated by her buck-toothed consort King Carol II of Rumania is salty with sea oaths (TIME, Sept. 10, 1934). Helen although no longer Queen of Rumania, carries officially the style "Her Majesty." The legal nature of her relation to King Carol II is so anomalous that an act of the Rumanian Parliament would suffice to make...
...Majesty's subjects this revelation that the royal bride can and does recite passages from the Highway Act augured that Queen Mary has at last found the perfect royal daughter-in-law, recalled the late Prince Consort Albert whose ability to recite excerpts from State papers ancient and modern has been equaled by no member of the Royal Family since...
...Said Mr. Hearst then: "I supported Smith three times and that was three times too many." Next year he ditched the Democratic ticket to back rich, reactionary, Republican Ogden Mills unsuccessfully against Governor Smith. In 1928 Presidential Nominee Smith was viciously cartooned in the Hearst press as the political consort of "Diamond Lil" Democracy, aglitter with John J. Raskob's vulgar diamonds. To climax the feud Publisher Hearst in the 1932 Chicago convention swung his Garner delegates to Franklin D. Roosevelt thus insuring the latter's nomination. Muttered deeply disgruntled Democrat Smith: "As long as Hearst and McAdoo are running...
Leonardo's book was forgotten again from 1810 until 1879 when the drawings, which Albert, the Prince Consort, had had mounted, were exhibited. A few scholars began to study them. One of the first. Dr. P. Muller-Walde, went mad. Another, Theodore Sabachnikoff, was so broken by his publisher's issuing his photographs of the collection without text or preparation, that he died of dismay. In 1930 the Windsor librarian gave Kenneth Clark the job of cataloging the entire collection. In the first of the two volumes published last week he includes some 30,000 of Leonardo...
...former member of H. M. Government he must certainly speak for a large and representative body of British opinion. "The King at home or abroad is ever first and foremost the servant of the State," says Sir Austen, and his selection of photographs exhibits the King, his consort, and the royal family, performing the duties incumbent upon them in peace and in war. These duties, if Sir Austen's anthology gave the whole story, would seem to be wholly public, and pity would then be one of the emotions aroused in the populace at the sight of Majesty opening...