Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monarch and Subject MacDonald can be said to owe each other much. Warm friends, they took their time, a whole hour of tea. Then the Prime Minister kissed hands and was Prime Minister no more. Driving away down the Mall, he passed Stanley Baldwin driving toward the Palace, and silk hat was gravely raised to silk hat. Mr. Baldwin, seated far back in the depths of his Daimler, was unnoticed by passers-by until he alighted to step on the red carpet of Buckingham Palace. In a hurry, he kissed hands and became Prime Minister about four minutes after...
...Heaven, studious, introspective Emperor Hirohito, distracted Palace officials rushed with tidings that the Divine Monarch's youngest brother, His Imperial Highness Prince Sumi, 19, had just been bitten by a dog. According to official announcements both dog and prince were "detailed for observation" in Narashino Military Hospital but at latest reports neither had shown signs of rabies and Prince Sumi's wound was called slight...
...permanent history of the world, a keen documentation of George V's reign which may well rank with Hugo's description of Waterloo, Dickens' account of the fall of the Bastille. You are to be congratulated, Sirs, on a most able summary of an able monarch's rule...
They will sail from New York Saturday, March 30 on the Monarch of Bermuda. Transportation expenses will be met by the Club, but while in Bermuda their living expenses will be paid...
...objection?" This, correspondents pleaded, was not enough. A reigning monarch is never interviewed, but could they not have the honor of quoting Siam's former King of the North and of the South, Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of the Tide, Brother of the Moon, Half-brother of the Sun and Possessor of the Four and Twenty Golden Umbrellas...