Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Serene as always, King Fuad arrived, noted the makeshift throne, diplomatically tested only the edge of its capacity. To M. Avenol, still warm from his recent labors, King Fuad hinted: "Each time Egypt has been invited to international meetings under the auspices of the League she has been happy to participate...
...King Ahmed Fuad of Egypt, fat and happy, now on an official tour of Europe, last week paid a surprise visit to the League of Nations at Geneva. He caused a mild panic among the staid members of the Secretariat. Little used to entertaining pompous monarchs who travel as does Egypt's Fuad with a small army of retainers, Secretariat members thought only in the nick of time to provide a throne for the dusky, red-fezzed potentate. Acting Secretary General J. A. M. C. Avenol, flustered in the absence of his chief, suave, assured Sir Eric Drummond, madly...
Easy-going King Fuad's surprise visit was not regarded, last week, as more than another impotent gesture, destined to bear little fruit...
Soon the Commoners were summoned to the House of Lords to hear the Speech from the Throne. Seated on a bench before the empty throne were five noble representatives of the King in ermine and scarlet, like end men at a minstrel show. In their middle, was the Lord Chancellor, Sir John Sankey. Perhaps 50 Peers in ordinary morning clothes sat comfortably on their benches. Crowded behind the Bar of the Lords stood the Commoners. Thus once a year do the Lords of Britain put the Commoners in their places...
...five commissioners stared fixedly at the Commoners. In unison they slowly raised their black tricorn hats three times in greeting. Then Lord Chancellor Sankey read the King's speech, a speech which everybody knows is not written by the King at all but by the Prime Minister, a speech supposed to give the policies and promises of the new Government...