Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case dragged along in the courts, and "Governor" Taylor kept out of jail. One day in May the Supreme Court of the U. S. made a decision.* Mr. Taylor paced up and down in the District Attorney's office at Louisville, waiting for the news. Suddenly he cried: "I must go to my home in Butler county.'" and rushed out of the room, his black coattails dancing behind him, his black "Colonel's" hat flapping with the speed...
...French Royalist news organ, L' Action Française gravely carried in its "Court Circular," last week, the news that "King Jean III of France"† was sending his only son, the "Dauphin Henri of France" on a State Visit to British King-Emperor George V. Ignorant French republicans sniggered, supposing that a chill British reception, if any, awaited Dauphin Henri...
However, Belgian court circles were relieved, last week, by tidings from Mons, to the effect that pretty Princess Astrid's example is now being followed by Mons maidens and young Mons matrons of highest social standing...
...Liechtenstein, the European principality of smallest population (11,500), is still independent, still has its own High Court, and is still reigned by Johann Marie François Placide, Prince de Liechtenstein, Duc de Troppau et de Jägerndorf...
Soon one of the parents, Vladimir Orlovsky, an aviator, went home and destroyed his three-year-old idiot son. With lightning swiftness a Soviet court found him "technically guilty of murder," sentenced Aviator Orlovsky to six months in jail, then suspended the sentence, allowing him to remain free...