Word: consorts
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...time after this civil war the remaining men lived in a stupor of alcohol and unbridled miscegenation; then the women turned against them, cornered the supply of muskets and shut themselves into a stockade. The male survivor of this Lysistratian war was finally reconciled, became the patriarch-consort of the island. When a Yankee ship put in to Pitcairn's Island in 1808, the little colony was Godfearing, sober, prolific. They had never heard of the French Revolution or the Napoleonic Wars, but most of them were happy...
...years that motherly monarch, Queen Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, has driven in a gilded coach under the tree-lined streets of The Hague to open her Parliament. Last week for the first time in 33 of those years she did not have the comfortable figure of the Prince Consort, Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg, beside...
...dickering last week Zita was seconded by her brother Felix. Prince Consort of the reigning Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, who was also present. The six royalties finally agreed that the engagement of Maria and Otto should be made known as a fact but not published for the present in King Vittorio Emmanuele's Royal Gazette. Conceivably the wedding may turn upon whether Archduke Otto regains Austria's Imperial Throne or at least the Hungarian Royal Throne. When the engagement had been made de facto last week Zita and Princess Maria embraced, and Zita's seven younger offspring were presented...
...stone statues of the "Lord of Fertility" and the "Mother Goddess." Both had huge round eyes and grand-piano legs, were otherwise personable. The Lord of Fertility was about 30 in. tall, wore a knee-length fringed skirt, an elegantly curled beard. The Mother Goddess, somewhat shorter than her consort, wore a close-fitting garment like a slip, with an almost modern cape effect on one side. The statues were ascribed to the Sumerian culture...
When a dike bursts or God otherwise afflicts her people Queen Wilhelmina is at once upon the scene. Last week she left Amsterdam to her devoted troops and police and went on with preparations to give Consort Henry the sort of funeral he had said he wanted. When he came as a bridegroom to Holland in 1901, Prince Henry, fourth son of the late reigning Duke of Mecklenburg, was considered by the Dutch people most handsome but too frivolous. He introduced boar hunting and Dutch farmers were furious. But Prince Henry proved adaptable. He learned to sit expressionless beside...