Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Questioned the blue-eyed, towheaded child: "Are you really my Queen? I thought you always wore a golden crown...
Said the Queen-Empress Victoria Mary: "My dear, I am sorry I have left my golden crown at home...
...Grand Duke Nikolai,* the Grand Duke Cyril,* Prince Felix Youssoupov, and other pre-eminent Russian emigres well know where to find many a gem and golden ruble buried and hidden by themselves before they fled Russia. Recently Prince Dolgorukovo, relatively small aristocratic fry, entered Russia in disguise to retrieve some of his buried treasure...
Here, Miss Millay strikes a tone of modern cynicism. Aelfrida appears before the royal guest in all her glory, wearing a golden robe, splendid in her favorite gems. The betrayer is betrayed. He plunges his dagger into his heart. He commits suicide in a "nice" way, explains Miss Millay. No fuss, tenor solo, orchestral pomposity; no sentimental worblings of lost love and noble remorse. Like a true Saxon, he quietly takes his life, "for himself," not glory or revenge. Aelfrida weeps but Eadgar says to her: "Thou hast not tears enough in thy narrow
...destiny had begun to shoot like a comet. Epical dreams of a march to the Indies swirled within him. But he went no farther than Egypt, returned to Paris without his army. Everyone knows the rest of the story?the coup d' etat . . . imperial crown of golden laurel leaves . . .Austerlitz and "name your children after me" ... a treaty on a raft at Tilsit . . . the comet begins to droop . . . conqueror of a burning Moscow . . . Leipsig and puny Elba . . . Waterloo and hellish St. Helena...