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...hear the Royal assent to a series of bills (a U. S.-Canada trade agreement, a wheat subsidy, the Dominion budget), something brand-new to Canada and a prerogative of the King-Emperor almost forgotten in England. At each the King nodded, and the deputy clerk droned "His Majesty doth assent." But as a warning that no individual may supersede Parliament, Ottawa's seven old men of the Supreme Court filed into the Senate chamber and plumped down on a big circular woolsack, from which they could symbolically keep an eye on everyone. After that Their Majesties received...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Royal Visit | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...theme it poses Hotspur against Falstaff, contrasting on a mighty scale the romantic and realistic ways life. To great-hearted Hotspur honor is everything. But Falstaff asks: "Can honor set to a leg? . . . Honor hath no skill in surgery then? . . . Who hath honor?-he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. . . . Therefore I'll none of it." So Falstaff lives; and Hotspur dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Old Play in Manhattan: Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...sheet of parchment toward him, dipped pen and signed "George R. I." beneath a proclamation canceling last week the September "Crisis" Proclamation under which the Royal Navy was put under partial, later full mobilization. The new proclamation proclaimed: "His Majesty, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, doth hereby declare that a case of emergency no longer exists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Emergency's End | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...Doth loll about with just her slip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Likes & Dislikes | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...thee from the seat of elect to the seat of the mighty: Such shalt be mine atonement". And the priest hath made answer: "Wherefore shalt I appear on the appointed day thereof." And the report hath filled all the land, and the appointed day hath come, and the priest doth not arrive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BALAAM'S ASS | 2/20/1936 | See Source »

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