Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unexpected, comes as a blow to a sympathetic world, which had hoped that some other solution to the problem could have been found. The days when the divine right of kings was an unquestioned maxim have passed, but it is unfortunate that the stage has been reached when a monarch's private life is subject to regulation by a Cabinet of Ministers...
...Emperor Napoleon now, he quarrelled with Czar Alexander I, he undertook to reprimand that monarch. He won the battle of Borodino but lost three hundred eighty thousand men. In October 1813 he lost at Leipsic to a Russian-Prussian-Austrian coalition. His enemies marched into Paris, the Emperor left for Elba...
...with the head of the Labor Party not to force an election on the issue of Parliamentary approval. Repeated warnings from the cabinet have failed to awe the King, and the London Times speaks guardedly of the creation of a Council of State, the machine which carries on a monarch's duties when for some reason he is unable to fulfill them. Edward is like a bull in a china shop, breaking traditions every time he moves, and it is clear that the ruling class wishes that someone else were King. In a visit to the slums of South Wales...
...Darius, seated in an ornate chair. Their figures are seven feet tall, the others lifesize. A petitioner, slightly bowed, holds his hand to his mouth "in a gesture of respect and appeal." One of the court officials appears to be a Food Taster, as he holds a napkin. The monarch and his son grasp twin-budded lotus blossoms, symbols of royalty. Their shoes are like those of present-day Iranians...
...most decisive way, place her moral stamp upon the English-speaking people of the world, and while in many cases the imposed morality was nothing more than a veneered hypocrisy, on the whole, the standards were high, and the British Empire attained its Golden Age under this noble monarch. I also lived under King Edward VII, and witnessed the expectancy of those who desired a looser morality. King Edward VII, although known as a wild Prince, nevertheless held to the high standards set by his illustrious mother, although he contributed nothing to the high morality of the British Isles. Since...