Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the King of Spain played polo at San Sebastian; while the King of Britain yachted coolly at Cowes; while the President of Germany saw to the launching of two great steamships before repairing to Bavaria to hunt chamois; while the President of France rested at Rambouillet prior to exerting himself in honor of the visiting U. S. Secretary of State-the President of the U. S. continued casting flies and reeling in trout in the northwest corner of Wisconsin...
Thus ended the tragedy of the F14, but a courageous epilogue was enacted off Santander, Spain, last week by King Alfonso XIII, Queen Victoria Eugenie and their second son, the Infante Don Jaime. These royal persons, having read the final newspaper accounts of asphyxiation aboard the F14, proceeded to quiet their nerves by entering the Spanish super-submarine 51, which promptly dived beneath Atlantic billows for a short, serene voyage, a safe return...
...puss-in-the-corner competition of petty princes, watched hired captains of mercenaries scheming to prolong their lucrative warfare, watched Ludovico break the unwritten rule of the game and call in Charles VIII, Foreigner, to settle a local dispute, while all Italians smiled, bowed, tossed flowers in the French king's path, stones in his wake. With still more of a curl to his lip, Nicolo watched Savonarola hypnotizing the garish Florentine crowds into demure god-fearing citizenry, and the street gamins into veritable "boyscouts of the Lord." He suspected the Friar of charlatanism, perhaps because he tried...
Every day for over half a century, Louis XIV, every inch a king, played slave to. etiquette. Epitome of the day's procedure was his royal arising, witnessed daily by some 300 fawning souls. Only the Family could observe his semi-divinity lying in bed, but the next order of noblemen was admitted to see him dip his hand in holy water, climb out of bed, and don his dressing gown. The third order then entered to see the king shave and put on his wig. And last came the final rabble of cardinals, marshals, courtiers, to observe...
...palaces at Versailles are reminiscent of glittering splendor and jewelled magnificence during the Sun King's reign. But Mr. Forester points out that the palaces were drafty and uncomfortable; the magnificence fatuous, futile, and unjustly extracted from a suffering people...