Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Schoolboys' Anthem for Siam. Quite recently the venerable and sagacious ministers of His Majesty King Prajadhipok of Siam sat in conclave over a large official letter which had reached them from remote, outlandish Europe...
...tremendous letter from Siam, emblazoned with the royal arms and addressed to His Excellency the President of Slovakia, Professor Mihalusz. What could this mean? Startled, the Mayor ripped open the envelope, grew pop-eyed as he read. With all the pomp and felicity of Oriental diplomacy, His Majesty King Prajadhipok declared himself graciously and inexpressibly pleased to accord full recognition de facto and de jure to the Sovereign Republic of Slovakia. There is, of course, no such state...
Among the bulletins that were issued last week from Craigwell House, Bognor, where the King-Emperor rests after his illness, was one over the signatures of Lord Dawson of Penn and Sir Stanley Hewett, His Majesty's Chief Physicians. Innocent sounding enough, it was secretly carried to London, and submitted to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the Prince of Wales before being published...
...most famous judges of King George III of England, John, Earle of Eldon, has come to Harvard. His expression is captured to the living by a marble bust, which has just been secured for the Harvard Law School by agents in England. He is portrayed as on the bench with full bottom wig, bands and judicial gown...
...enlist, but his age disqualified him. He served as a minister, however, with the British Y. M. C. A. in 1916, 1917, and 1918, and for his work on the battlefields, he received the decoration of the order of the British government and the personal thanks of the King. At the close of the war, on the request of the British government, he visited America to assist in the promotion of friendly relations between the two countries. On this trip he traveled 50,000 miles and spoke 350 times in 54 cities, in different parts of the United States...