Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London Daily News scooped, last week, the news that "the King's hair has turned pure white...
...other morning a dignified and white haired gentleman, faultlessly dressed in morning coat and top hat applied at the Palace gates for an interview with an official of the King's household. He was at once passed in, for he is quite a well known figure in society and it was discovered to the amazement of the official whose duty it was to interview him, that he had come to tell the King's doctors that they were dealing with the case on a hopelessly wrong diagnosis. The King, he told the official, was suffering from the ill effects...
...Ever since it was realized by the British public that the king was seriously ill Buckingham Palace has been literally inundated with patent medicines and bottles containing unguents made from hundred-year-old recipes sent by well-wishers for His Majesty's recovery. . . . There are phials containing green, red, and yellow liquids; there are chest pastes made from fruits and flour, there are unguents of crushed ginger and honey which have been handed down in recipe from generation to generation, and there is a whole drawer full of protective amulets sent by villagers from nearly every county in the country...
...public is fully aware that the King has by his bedside the finest physicians and specialists in the country, but a certain number of them are apparently dissatisfied. Every day sees new additions to the ever-growing pile of bottles, and phials, and philtres which are being stored away unopened in special rooms; for to return the medicines to the donors would hurt their feelings, and the officials of the Palace are above all things thoughtful of others...
...gates receive parcels of stuff which are delivered in person. One old lady rode up from the country in a motor car which must have been any age at the outbreak of the late War, and demanded to be taken in front of Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's chief physician. She was handled tactfully, and when she realized that she was unable to see the great doctor she disclosed that she had brought up a jar containing a mixture of linseed, aromatic herbs and toad's blood which she had religiously stirred through the night in accordance with...