Word: loyality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later in the day the King and Queen motored into Copenhagen to receive at the Amalienborg Palace he congratulations of various deputations from their loyal subjects. Some of these loyal subjects had wished to buy the King and Queen a summer palace on the island of Funen, but King Christian, hearing of the plan, suggested that such a gift would hardly be in keeping with ;he times, and that anyway he had more castles than he could afford to maintain...
...close friend of the Earl of Balfour, says of the impending visit of the King to the Pope: 'It is purely an act of courtesy, and if the King visited Rome without going to the Vatican it would certainly be an act of discourtesy to millions of his loyal subjects all over the Empire...
...Lieutenant Schmidt's cruiser was joined by nine other ships and an infantry regiment on shore, which attempted to seize the city of Sebastopol. Ships loyal to the Tsar opened fire on the rebel boats, sinking the Otchakov, the Dneiper and a transport. The remaining seven quickly surrendered, and, after several conflicts, the mutineers on shore gave themselves up. The casualties on both sides amounted to 5,000. Subsequently 39 sailors were tried, some acquitted, others sentenced to hard labor for life. Schmidt and three others were shot...
Leacock and his friends are loyal Canadians. During the past two years, they have built up a Canadian Authors' Association which, starting originally to protect copyrights, has developed into a pleasant social organization, and one which takes a great interest in book propaganda. To their efforts must be credited the original success of the delightful Maria Chapdelaine. It was a relief, the other day, to sit down with Mr. Leacock and some of his cronies in Montreal. A relief, because one no longer heard talk of Sherwood Anderson or of T. S. Eliot, of this modern literary quarrel...
...prominent "angel" and man of mystery, John Mitchell; the dark and debonnaire South American cave man, Guimares; the tragic mother, Mrs. Keenan; the crafty sleuths hot on the scent of the blackmailing murderer; the poor, humiliated wife in Palm Beach; or even the colored maid, Billie Bradford, discreet and loyal confidant of the white beauty and her "important" lover...