Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King," said the bulletin, "is now able to read and apply his mind for short periods of time. Complete recovery is still some months distant...
...Death. "My own participation was delayed by the death of my son Calvin, which occurred on the seventh of July. He was a boy of much promise, proficient in his studies, with a scholarly mind, who had just turned sixteen...
...fact that it is absolutely impossible to tell whether the King's mind will completely recover or not makes the general anxiety the more acute. All his most personal belongings have been taken to Craigwell House to help him recover: his famed stamp albums, his collection of gramophone records, most of them jazz tunes, his terrier, and Charlotte, the parrot...
Many distinguished officers from Tid-worth barracks had, it appeared, ridden to hounds and played cricket with Captain Barker. "He ascribed his difficulty in throwing the ball to War wounds," said Dr. Farr of the Cricket Club last week, "I may have sometimes thought, mind you, that Barker was built 'all wrong.' He was. But there again, the poor feller was so terribly bashed in the War! Gad, I can't think of old Barker yet as a woman! The thing sticks and won't go down...
Denmark's elongated King, Christian X, dislikes hitches. Things can never run too smoothly to suit the precise mind of the six-foot-five-inch ruler, and yet recently a number of annoying little accidents have happened to His Majesty. A fat Frenchman fell over his feet in the theatre at Cannes (TIME, Feb. 25). He paid a State Visit to Madrid, only to have the Queen-Mother of Spain die suddenly (TIME, Feb. 18). So it has gone. Last week King Christian returned to Denmark from the Riviera, determined that if possible, this voyage should be uneventful...