Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This month that saltiest monarch, beloved King George, who swears unprintable quarter-deck oaths exclusively, has been working up through the Royal Air Force and the Army to the final and greatest pageant of his Silver Jubilee year, the naval review last week at Spithead, off Portsmouth. "Fly Past/- Three brand new Baby Rolls-Royces were at His Majesty's disposal when he went down to Mildenhall, Suffolk, to view some $5,000,000 worth of fighting aircraft which had nearly burned up in a huge grass fire night before. Stepping into an apple-green Baby Rolls, and wearing...
...land and sea reviews. The King, who despises stunts, barely consented to watch a new-fangled gadget called a Queen Bee zip off the deck of an aircraft carrier and fly without a pilot by radio control to attack H. M. S. Rodney. To the oldfangled Monarch's immense satisfaction the first Queen Bee tumbled into the water almost before it got started and the second was shot down by Rodney's quick-firing 4.7 in. guns...
Cross & Red Cross, Most of Coptic Christian Emperor Power of Trinity's subjects are pagans, but that wily monarch claims to possess the very Ark of the Covenant described in the Old Testament and the very Tablets of the Law, straight from Jehovah's own hand and preserved for ages in Ethiopia. Last week these relics which, if authentic, should galvanize the Christian world to action in their defense, were ordered by His Majesty "removed to the mountains...
...readers the plight of modern royalty, striving to preserve royal hauteur while controlling squabbling politicians, is closer to high comedy than to tragedy. But to Author Charles d'Ydewalle, Belgian journalist and intimate friend of the late King Albert, the career of at least one modern monarch can properly be termed tragic. In another period of the world's history Albert might have reigned at peace with his subjects, won fame as an intellectual who had studied Marx, Machiavelli, Taine, kept up with modern literature to the extent of being able to enjoy Louis-Ferdinand Celine...
...Albert had not expected to rule. The death of his moody older brother put him in line for the throne. Albert possessed many of the characteristics of his grandfather. Louis Philippe, the "Bourgeois-King'' of France, had no liking for display, became known as the worst-dressed monarch of modern times. In the early years of his reign he inaugurated colonial reforms, associated with Socialist politicians, granted universal suffrage, was considered a scholar and mountain climber who was always badly in need of a haircut...