Word: himly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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An hour later venerable King Gustaf V, 81, was at the Stockholm railway station and Swedish newshawks watched attentively to note how many kisses His Majesty would bestow on his fellow sovereigns Danish King Christian X, 69, and that monarch's brother, Norwegian King Haakon VII, 67. In 1905...
Dynasty by Adoption. The history of Sweden in the 81 years since King Gustaf's birth is just about the best possible argument for constitutional monarchy. The Royal House, as lineage goes in Europe, is extremely young. His Majesty is only the great-grandson of its founder Jean Bernadotte...
Since King Gustaf has reached such a great age, many of the burdens of the Crown are now borne by big-boned, vigorous Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, who has been acting as Regent every winter while His Majesty vacations on the Riviera, sipping champagne with attractive French mondaines and finding...
Sir Reginald John Thoroton Hildyard, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., who resigned his post as Governor General last April because the Colonial Assembly refused to let him have an automobile (only garbage and soldiers were allowed trucks) must have been piqued to hear that cars were now permitted all over the islands...
"Two of the less attractive characteristics of the German are his inability either to see any side of a question except his own, or to understand the meaning of moderation. . . . Herr Hitler could see no mean between rendering the Czechs innocuous as a potential enemy and destroying their liberty as...