Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week Ahmed Fuad Pasha, G. C. B., King Fuad I of Egypt, celebrated his 61st birthday. President Hoover cabled him: "Please accept my congratulations . . . and the assurances of my high regard and best wishes...
...brief, "All the King's Men" is a play, excellently presented, which while it does not make its audience reach for the handkerchief to wipe away tears either of sympathy or of laughter, nevertheless supplies just enough of both comedy and charm to keep each fresh, and afford at the same time a very pleasant evening's entertainment...
...Knights in the delayed New Year's honors list tingled at the thought of kneeling in silk breeches to be dubbed (smacked between the shoulder blades) by the naked sword of Edward of Wales acting for George V. These ceremonies were postponed to allow the Prince to represent King George at Marshal Foch's funeral...
...first time the President of the Republic−just now M. Gaston Doumergue−chose to ignore the inflexible protocol which decrees that the Head of the State does not follow the corpse of a citizen. For the first time the King of the Belgians−tall, chivalrous, heroic Albert I− came to Paris in the simple quality of general, kissed the hand of Mme. La Maréchale Foch, looked for the last time on the Supreme Generalissimo, whose orders even His Majesty had obeyed as a subordinate, and returned to Brussels after only three hours...
Under the patronage of His Majesty King Albert and His Highness Prince Albert de Ligne, Belgian Ambassador to the U.S., there arrived last week in Manhattan the Symphonic Band of the Royal Belgian Guards, for a three months' tour...