Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Were monarch beasts, and on the slimy shores...
...CHARLES, KING OF ENGLAND-John Drinkwater-Doran ($5). Mr. Drinkwater, entirely suave in pen and person, has chosen very happily to write about Charles II. Posterity, with invincible gaucherie, remembers Charles as "The Merry Monarch," as the popularizer of a certain breed of spaniel, and as the only man or monarch to whom Miss Eleanor Gwyn* was ever faithful. Mr. Drinkwater does not forget the spaniels nor Nell Gwyn, but he remembers Mr. Charles...
...other monarch of a great power is so important to his subjects as the Emperor of Japan. To them he is a descendant of the Sun Goddess, and thus actually possessed of Godhood. Moreover, only one dynasty has reigned* and still reigns in Japan. All spiritual and temporal good flows from the Emperor. Even the greatest of all Japanese victories, the capture of Port Arthur by Admiral Togo (1905), was officially ascribed to "the virtue of the Emperor." Therefore last week when the people of Japan set about the funeral of the late Emperor Yoshihito (TIME, Jan. 3), they very...
...course lead the way: "As a child I was shy; as a girl I ran hurdle races over the White House furniture; today I do what I please and enjoy it thoroughly. There are certain days that I like to recall: the day that I dined with my favorite monarch, the late King Edward VII . . . the day I was banished to New York from Washington by my father, Theodore Roosevelt, because I had bet on the horse races . . . the day I wore red riding breeches when presented to the Emperor of Korea (it was on this trip to the Orient...
...breeches so charmingly for a trooper, that a sergeant took her for his doll. From her knobby washboard she vaulted, with the ad- miration of an army corps, beyond the antechamber of Peter the Great. He was a humorist-perhaps the greatest. With a fillip never equaled by another monarch he set his laundress, bouncing and buxom, on the world's tallest throne...