Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lord Mayor of London is almost invariably a different sort of man from his counterpart in a great U. S. city such as Chicago or New York. Political pull cannot elevate an Englishman to the post whose incumbent has authority to grant (and hence to refuse) permission to the King-Emperor to pass Temple Bar, traditional gateway to the City of London. Great wealth and an established, honorable position in the business community are the well-nigh indispensable qualifications of any Londoner who would become "My Lord Mayor." The office is really honorary, the incumbency only one year. Anyone...
...stood among his councilors, taller than any, "hot-looking, heavily perfumed" ?the new king. He was 18, golden-haired, pink-and-white, husky, gusty, eager to begin the business of running England. His penny-pinching old father had run that business pretty well, had piled up money, but the son thought Henry VII had been piddling. He would speed up the small but rich-going concern, put himself and England on the map. He always thought of himself first and said that all he did was for the glory of God. That was the fashion. Solidly behind him stood...
...queen, but I would rather die the wife of Culpeper." She had stabbed Henry's pride. He was getting fat, middleaged. Laws were passed to make it praiseworthy to tattle on a naughty queen, to make it fatal for a royal-bride-to-be to hornswoggle the king as to her virtue...
...Significance. Author Hackett's Henry is immense. Others who have written biographically of the gigantic, simpleminded, "red-tempered," go-getter king include: Froude (hero worship in magnificent prose); Gasquet (colored with religious emotion); H. A. L. Fisher (fairly, in The Political History of England, vol. 6). And there is the monumental Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, 21 vols., a work of 50 years, deep mine of source material. Author Hackett used these and many another book and record. He worked on his biography over a period of six years. It has the best of material (perhaps...
...summary: HARVARD DARTMOUTH Salmon, Dunn, g. g., Bott Robinson, pt. pt., Stickler Kroell, c.pt. c.pt., Leach Pickard, 1d. 1d., Johnston Hartnett, 2d. 2d., Cornelson Park, 3d. 3d., Phinney, Crehan Nido, c. c., Carnell, King, Golan Glenn, 3a. 3a., McVean, Fish Gulick, Pope, 2a. 2a., Sieminski McGuire, Wilkinson, 1a., 1a., Gould Johnson, Sanders, o.h. o.h., Gunther, Moore Shapiro, Foshay, 1h. 1h., Babcock...