Word: dearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rocks And soon it will be sunk. It has no pilot at the wheel But regimented Bunk. It wanders to the right and left, It flounders all around. It needs a Captain on the Bridge Whose reckoning is sound. London, Oh! Landon, will lead to Victory, With the dear old Constitution And it's good enough...
...lands . . . many of our loving subjects do claim that they are bound to do and perform divers services on said day and at the time of the coronation ... we therefore out of our princely care for the preservation of the lawful rights and inheritances . . . have appointed our most dear brother and counselor, His Royal Highness Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York ... to sit in the Council Chamber at Whitehall ... [so that all persons whom it may concern] may give their attendance for the exhibiting of their petitions and claims for performance...
...date most favored by early guessers on the coronation. May 12 was finally decided upon because the leaves would not be too far out to obstruct rooftop views of the coronation procession. Privately King Edward told his most dear brother and counselor and the Duke of Norfolk, who is officially responsible for arranging the coronation, to do everything they possibly could to simplify the interminable ritual...
...bracketing of Pilsudski and Batory is dear to Poles. Wearing much the same kind of walrus mustache as Josef Pilsudski, 16th Century King Istvan Batory, born a Hungarian, was smart enough in his brief, ten-year reign to try to expand Poland to both the Baltic and Black Seas. He smashed the Russian Tsar's armies. conquered Danzig and regained a part of the East Baltic coast, died before he could reach the Black Sea. For a little while then Poland was the No. 1 power between western and eastern Europe...
Among musicians and songwriters he was "dear old Victor," always good for a touch. Among critics there was a general regret that he seldom had librettos halfway worthy of his scores. Toward the end of his life jazz dimmed his box-office power, but he went on spending freely, passing out $10 bills as he walked down the street. Death came to him on May 27, 1924. He lunched at his club that day, boasted that he could eat nails. Two hours later he was dead in his doctor's office...