Word: monarchal
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...spun the yarn behind his whittled model. Invented 20 years ago by his Aunt Maggie's boy, Ivan Fleming, a British naval officer, the Fleming hand-propelled aluminum alloy lifeboat is now in use on 75 merchant ships, including the Nieuw Amsterdam, the Conte di Savoia, the Monarch of Bermuda, Queen of Bermuda, the Stockholm, but not on any U. S. liner...
...tried "to bluff" and refuse to sign the "Munich capitulation" would have been "as criminal as war itself," nevertheless this "humiliation that has no precedent in our history" must be redressed by strengthening France, and this required neither policies of the Right nor Left but unity under a constitutional monarch...
Last week the young monarch was in Paris, there attended the dedication of a monument to his father, the late King Albert. Surprised were France's President Albert Lebrun, Premier Edouard Daladier and Leopold's sister, the Crown Princess of Italy, when the King brushed aside the conventional speech of thanks, launched into an impassioned plea for his ideas...
...follow ticklers in literature and fine arts. In the trial question booklet figure such propositions as where is the Slough of Despond described? or during the reign of what monarch was the most beautiful translation of the Bible into English published...
King William IV (1765-1837) was a genial, well-meaning but rather muddle-some man whose niece, Victoria, succeeded him on the throne of England. Third son of George III, he had no great expectation during his youth of becoming England's monarch. As the Duke of Clarence, he bestowed his ardors on a Mrs. Jordan, an actress, to whom he was faithful for many years and who bore him twelve children. At Teddington, not far from London, he used for his extraordinary menage a charming and spacious 18th Century brick palace. When the death of his niece, Princess...