Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only one monarch is buying jewels today: Persia's Reza Shah Pahlavi...
...cheer. In the Parliamentary lobbies close friends of Mr. Scullin told of his verbal tussle, face to face with George V. The right of Australia (under the Imperial Conference decision of 1926) to dictate who shall be her Governor General naturally was not questioned by His Majesty. But the monarch sought to win Mr. Scullin over by expressing himself as "more than willing to do Australia the greatest conceivable honor," by sending out as Governor General one of His Majesty's own sons...
...ones who seemed to be the superior race. Beside them the pallid little Englishmen dressed in the dull sobriety of bank clerks were like subordinate assistants. Even King George in morning coat minus the accustomed white carnation in his buttonhole, was more like a company director than a monarch...
...first time since he nearly died of pneumonia two years ago, George V last week opened Parliament. Bareheaded the venerable monarch drove with Queen Mary from Buckingham Palace to the House of Lords, arrived snuffling. Repeatedly during the majestic procedure His Majesty cleared his throat as though it tickled. Once he broke a sentence in the middle to cough...
Stealthily the "Black Eagle" moved, was off with a roar before his intention was suspected. In the Abyssinian capital, New Flower, the sound of one airplane is enough to make everyone run out of doors, even the Emperor. Thus the wrathful monarch was watching when his Black Eagle turned into a Black Crow, lost control of his ship at an altitude of 100 ft., crashed in a mass of tangled wreckage. "Spite work!" cried Colonel Julian emerging uninjured from the mess. "That Frenchman who commanded the Abyssinian Air Force before I took command tampered with my ship. Spite work...