Word: kings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discretion the Government of France ignores and hushes up such incidents. An official hastily re-lights the gas and the Sacred Flame is supposed to burn again as pure as ever at Paris. In Brussels, however, a far different attitude was taken last week by Most Catholic and beloved King Albert...
Recently profaned in the usual way, the Sacred Flame of Belgium seemed to His Majesty so thoroughly polluted that he decreed a national ceremony for its purification. Present to assist grave, scandalized King Albert last week were petite intellectual Queen Elizabeth, tousle-headed, schoolboyish Crown Prince Leopold, his svelt, sophisticated wife Crown Princess Astrid,* and his softspoken, softer-eyed sister Princess Marie José (Jan. 8, 1930, was announced last week as the day she will wed Italy's mincing-mannered but courageous Crown Prince Umberto [TIME...
...before in the farthest villages of Belgium's nine provinces. War veterans had carried them in "Sacred Relays" to Brussels-no great distance since the remotest edge of the kingdom is only 114 miles away. While the last nine relay runners panted and held their flaming torches high, King Albert laid a huge wreath of purifying chrysanthemums around the polluted orifice. Then with a loud S-s-s-s-s the gas was turned full on. Simultaneously the runners thrust their torches into it "as a symbol of purification and reparation." Flash!-and once more Belgium had a Sacred...
Both Prince and Dictator were received separately in audience by His Majesty, who afterward appeared flustered. Tiny in stature and nervous, the bleak King contrasts as strangely with his tall, debonaire, swashbuckling son as with the burly, curt Dictator. If, as seemed probable, one of them advised, "You should kiss the Pope's toe," and the other thundered. "Your Majesty must not!" the bantam monarch must have been in an awkward quandary. For on Dec. 5 next?it was announced last week?King Vittorio Emanuele III will pay his first visit to the Vatican. The toe must be faced...
Diplomatic dickering about the kiss and other ceremonials has gone on between Vatican and Quirinal for a month. The view of Signor Mussolini (no toe-kisser) remains that King should merely shake hands with Pope, denoting that they meet as temporal sovereigns of two earthly realms (Italy and the new Papal State). But Crown Prince Umberto (looked to by non-Fascist Catholics as the only figurehead they could possibly set up against Il Duce) lets it be known unmistakably that he thinks his father's lips should touch...