Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaker who could not be arrested preached flat disloyalty to George V and mere lip loyalty to the British Crown before a huge audience at Harrismith in the Union of South Africa, a British Dominion. "We don't accept the King of England," he roared, "but only his Crown...
...concert with the Dominions, and not with her onetime parental status as "The Mother Country." Clearly these formulae are intentionally so loose and general as to leave enough space in Mother England's cupboard for much harmless rattling of the skeleton called "Treason to the King...
...these youths is heir to a Throne. Each has been mooned at and photographed ad nauseam. Therefore smart folk hailed with relief, last week, the definitive emergence of a fifth and little known prince: Charles of Flanders. Though he is not a Crown Prince, but the second son of King Albert of the Belgians, he officiated with the grace and freshness of youth, last week, at ceremonies which marked a pilgrimage to Belgium of 15,000 British Legionairies...
Edward of Wales had crossed the Channel for the occasion, but, though he was welcomed cordially, louder Belgian cheers rang out for Charles of Flanders. Even Britons were glad that this keen, upstanding Prince had been pushed to the fore by the fact that King Albert and Queen Elizabeth are now returning from Africa, after touring the Belgian Congo (TIME...
Young Primo has a tiny black mustache, is a Lieutenant in the Hussars, and plays so keen a game of polo that he was teamed, last month at Santander, with the only reigning monarch who is a crack poloist: His Most Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII, King of Spain...