Word: first
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Swedish and a Protestant, she at first was booed by rural Belgian prudes because she puffed cigarets in public. Mother of a girl-babe, she is tolerably popular...
...seemed probable, one of them advised, "You should kiss the Pope's toe," and the other thundered. "Your Majesty must not!" the bantam monarch must have been in an awkward quandary. For on Dec. 5 next?it was announced last week?King Vittorio Emanuele III will pay his first visit to the Vatican. The toe must be faced...
...unknown frugal Yorkshireman remembered Poet Philips' splendid shilling fortnight ago, and the Miltonic disasters that, according to ensuing stanzas, the lack of it entailed. Further he remembered that tousle-headed eight-year-old King Mihai of Rumania had just been given his first pair of long trousers (TIME, Oct. 28). To a Birmingham newspaper he sent a shiny new shilling piece and a note, addressed to the King of Rumania...
...custom hereabouts," he wrote, "to put a shilling in the pockets of a boy's first long trousers to bring him luck and wealth. May it bring Rumania's handsome little king all the luck in the world, and any additional wealth that he may desire...
Gunfire commenced early. Mexico's election law provides, apparently in an effort to improve the shooting, that the first nine citizens who succeed in registering at a voting booth are thereby constituted the election board for the day. By noon hundreds of Mexican voting booths were wrecked, most of the others triumphantly occupied by Ortiz Rubistas. In Mexico City an automobileful of machine gunners swept past a mass meeting of disconsolate Vasconcelistas, killed four, wounded eight. In Vera Cruz, Vasconcelistas took their revenge by lynching a man by the name of Lopez...