Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spinners of tales said that King Alfonso had left behind him portentous letters fit only for royal eyes. Others had it that Queen Victoria of Sweden had rejected his gift of a ruby necklace as too costly. Last week came truth...
...Sweden, King Alfonso had greatly (perhaps politely) praised a thin, hard, and nearly tasteless rye bread or biscuit, famed in Sweden as knaeckebroed. Shrewdly a Swedish baker approached the admiral of the Principe Alfonso. "Might not His Majesty like a box of knaeckebroed to take home with him?" The Admiral thought he might...
...focused on the man from whom Il Capo snatched the Ministry of Colonies-Signor Luigi Federzoni. Some have called this strong and enigmatic statesman "The Soft Speaker for the Vatican." All know that he has long been the only one of Benito Mussolini's ministers from whom harassed King Vittorio Emanuele III has always been able to secure a countersignature for his royal acts. Constitutionally the pen scratch of His Majesty is of no effect, unless countersigned by a member of the Government. Therefore when Signor Federzoni's ministry was snatched away, last week, the King was popped...
...potency was greatest shortly after Fascist bludgeon men had done to death the Socialist Deputy and millionaire Giacomo Matteoti-a deed which nearly unseated Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, himself suspected of ordering the crime (TIME, June 23, 1924 et seq.). With the Dictator for once scared and shaky, the King was able to insist that Deputy Luigi Federzoni be made Minister of Home Affairs in charge of the police. Smart guessers think they know that Faithful Federzoni then obtained evidence which he and King Vittorio Emanuele held over Il Duce for years afterwards. Eventually however the Dictator felt strong enough...
False, almost jubilant reports last fortnight had it that King Amanullah of Afghanistan and Queen Thuraya had been driven out of Kabul, their capital, by insurgents who objected to the King's dictum that all male Afghans wear pants...