Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Late bulletins were encouraging. The King was able to sit up in bed, to attend to important business. The people of Windsor were glad to notice that the band continued to play at guard mount, a sure sign that the King was not yet dangerously...
...Even so King George passed a melancholy birthday. He lay in his rubber-tired bed by the window of his room in Victoria Tower, looking out at the white blossoms of the hawthorn trees in Windsor Great Park...
...king's doctors and all the king's nurses who had attended during his illness received recognition in the birthday honors list. Elevated to peerages were onetime First Lord of the Admiralty William C. Bridgeman, Col. Sir Edward A. Brotherton, Sir Robert Sanders, Sir William Tyrell, Newspaper Owner Sir William Ewert Berry. The Order of Merit was conferred upon Poet Laureate Robert Bridges, Novelist-Dramatist John Galsworthy. An earldom was granted to Viscount Inch-cape of Strathnaver (shipping...
Dukes of Norfolk date their titles from 1483, Earls of Arundel from 1139. Arundel Castle, many times rebuilt, was a stout stronghold in King Alfred's time. Many, therefore, were the traditions to be observed last week by England's Norfolk, and to their strict observance he diligently attended...
...looks as if we shall hold the balance. That is a very responsible position and we shall make no unfair use of it. We certainly shall not use it in a haggling spirit, but for the best interests of the country. The King's government must be carried on, and it is essential that it should be steady...