Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sword devoureth one as well as another." Hardened and harsh was King David when he spoke these words to the messenger who told him that Uriah, husband of Bathsheba, had been slain as planned. But from the new Bible is missing the whole chapter that describes the unhappy King's brief interlude of passion with Bathsheba that lush spring when he tarried in Jerusalem although it was "the time when Kings go forth to battle." Without this tale is lost one of the most important psychological links in the evolution of David from the young idealist who befriended Jonathan...
...Czechs realized the Pope wished the breach completely healed. Especially joyful were they because of the fact that the Pope made this reconciliation in the midst of the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of St. Wenceslas, patron of Czechoslovakia and famed in Bohemian legends. While the festival over "Good King Wenceslas" has been in progress since May, last week was a most appropriate time for the Pope's presentation, since on the following day was opened the restored Church of St. Vitus, supposedly begun by St. Wenceslas and the place to which his body was brought a few years...
...especially Royal Bangkok, mourned the death of a young medical interne at the American Mission Hospital. No ordinary student he, but a superlatively intelligent one, for he came from a superlatively intelligent house and was none other than Somdet Chao Fa (Prince) Mahidol Adulyadej, brother of His Majesty the King of Siam, heir presumptive to the throne of Siam, Harvard graduate, onetime M. I. T. student...
Despite the death of the heir presumptive and the fact that the present King Prajadhipok is without a son as was his older brother King Rama VI, the Siamese throne will not lack for a successor. The late benevolent and fruitful King Rama V of Siam, father of these three, stocked Siam with royalty to come. He is generally credited with 370 children: 236 girls, 134 boys. Of these, ten beside the present King and the Prince who died last week are in succession to the throne...
...King, Queen and Princes paused to mourn last week, but not for long. They are workers. Smiling, keen little King Prajadhipok puts all his brothers to work. Between them they divide up nearly all government offices. The prince whose small body was last week anointed for the grave had most efficiently conducted the Siamese Ministry of Health before he took up medical studies. Only recently the king on a visit to princes in northern rural Siam had admonished his relatives as follows...