Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have so surely plunged his rapier to the heart of a system long held the most invulnerable dragon of the American system; there remains only to consider which varies most from the norm, the robot on one side, or he whom the first news article immortalizes as the Vagabond King, on the other. But that is comparatively simple, even the first group man is slave to the academic machine; but he who puts his finger on a weak spot in the works may be forever free...
...containing delicious details of the recent London marriage of England's cherubic Lord High Chancellor, Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham. For one thing this extremely select wedding was attended by only 60 guests, the press and the public being barred. For another it took place in King Henry VII's Chapel, in Westminster Abbey, the most gloriously Gothic and splendid shrine in England. Moreover the license was the first to be issued by the new Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, the Most Reverend Father in God, Cosmo Gordon Lang...
...been dropped with fame. Kreisler needs no Fritz for identification, no Mister for his dignity. Neither does Paderewski need his Ignaze Jan, nor Gieseking now his Walter. But ten years ago Kreisler was a celebrated violinist and Paderewski was the Premier of Poland as well as pianist, while Giese king was just a young German whose money had gone in the War and whose profession was music. Swiftly, however, his reputation was made, first with modern music, because in Germany there was a demand for all music that had been made during Wartime, music particularly of France and Spain. Then...
Round Twelve. Rockefeller Jr. resumed his tactics of the tenth round. This time his feint was an observance of the amenities: He paid his respects in Cairo to King Fuad. At the same time his Manhattan office through Thomas M. Debe voise, collector of pro-Rockefeller proxies, announced,. "We now feel confident of having enough proxies. We shall continue bending our energies to obtain many more stockholders for our side, for we are anxious to lead in the number of voters as well as in the volume of share-holders...
...mellowest mood, the Elder Statesman added: "Royal marriages for political reasons are out of date. Even a king has now the right to choose for his queen the woman that he loves. It is true beyond a doubt that all our people ardently desire to have a queen...