Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time in British railway history a royal train, carrying King George & Queen Mary and King Christian & Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, reached London behind schedule, stalled 18 minutes by the force of the storm. On his arrival in Britain last fortnight, long King Christian, whose life is a succession of minor mishaps (TIME, March 18, 1928), was stranded for hours on a mudbank. Last week, like Ajax defying the lightning, he re-embarked for home in the height of the hurricane...
Last week the new Almanach bore as a frontispiece the round olive face of fat King Fuad I of Egypt. Backed by the government of Great Britain, to whose Sovereign he has been sending presents of pink preserved milk (TIME, Dec. 16), Frontispiece Fuad has an excellent chance of retaining his throne at least until the next issue of the Almanach...
Venerable, venerated Paul Koundouriotis, 74, good friend and fellow revolutionist of Prime Minister Venizelos, was appointed Grand Admiral for Life in the Grecian Navy in 1919 in recognition of his notable victory over the Turkish fleet in the Balkan War of 1912-13. With the expulsion of King George 11 in 1923, Admiral Koundouriotis became Regent, and with the establishment of the republic, President...
...practical for a big family!" remarked King Albert of Belgium, gazing upon the luggage rack of a cheap five-passenger U. S. touring car at the Brussels motor show. King Albert, father of Leopold, Charles Theodore, Marie Jose, drives large Minervas, rides motorcycles...
...Buenos Aires, Statesmen Poincare and Irigoyen will undoubtedly enjoy comparing notes on a subject about which many men of their age, including many of the world's rulers, have personal experience: King George of England, President Doumergue of France, President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia. King Haakon of Norway. King Fuad of Egypt...