Word: ii
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though His Majesty George II was deposed in 1924 as King of Greece, he is still a Royal Prince of Denmark, his fatherland. Therefore the press of Copenhagen was flustered and appalled, last week, by news that George II would appear in public debate at Oxford, England, before the famed undergraduate Oxford Union. Most unseemly to Danes seemed the subject to debate...
Worst of all, from the Danish standpoint, George II took in debate, st week, the affirmative side-exalting brawn over Brain. To joyous Oxford students it was a jolly, royal joke; but presumably King Christian X of Denmark was vexed to read that his George II had said in debate...
...even your cheek when abroad. The Englishman seems to have learned the restraint of leadership while boys in other countries are learning Latin and arithmetic. "There might have been no Great War in Europe had the nations played with balls of leather instead of balls of lead." When George II had spoken, that distinguished Spanish man of letters Professor Salvador de Madariaga rose and presented with serenity and wit the case for esthetics. By the decisive vote of 286 to 237 the Oxford Union balloted that vernacular George II had lost the debate. Were George II Roman Catholic, in stead...
Briefly, the old and often successful British method of repeating in a tone of horror, what someone else has frankly said, 'was applied, last week, to President Coolidge, very much as it was once applied to Wilhelm II. Only British Labor's Daily Herald went the whole hog and bluntly said...
...Snefru, his mother Hetep-Heres I. Cheops loved her greatly. When her first tomb at Dahshur was robbed, he secretly reburied her at Giza, close to his pyramid. Cheops had four queens and several children. One of these, Chephren, built the second pyramid. His doughtiest daughter was Hetep-Heres II, a biological curiosity. Other Egyptians were swart and black-haired. She was blonde with reddish hair, probably inherited from foreign ancestors on her mother's side. She married her brother Kawa'ab, a dumpy, coarse man. He died. She married another brother, Radedef. He died. For her third...