Word: monarchal
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...HAWK-Robert W. Chambers-Appleton ($2.00). For years Author Chambers has dominated the realm of high romance. His present flyleaf lists two columns of unaccountably sound-sellers, many of which have dealt with cloak and sword, picturesque oaths and spirited ladies. Louis XIV being his favorite monarch, he now weaves around this "Sun King's" favorite hunting companion a somewhat laborious tale of French colonization in Quebec, complete with bloody Indian skirmishes and pious persecution of heretics. As for love interest, 8-year-old Countess Palladine, the sole survivor of a lurid Turkish massacre, is rescued thrillingly...
...Moscow, at the Lenin Institute, King Amanullah listened placidly, while the Director of the Institute informed him in Russian that he, Amanullah, "is an enlightened monarch who will never tolerate the domination of Great Britain over Afghanistan." When these words were translated to His Majesty in Persian he frowned deeply and said in his reciprocal oration: "I was tremendously impressed by much of what I saw in England (TIME, March 26). . . . I am convinced of the good will of the British Empire toward Afghanistan...
...saint and slayer, as professed parliamentarian and absolute ruler by power of the sword, Cromwell is convicted by the marshaling of the writer's facts. He is made to stand forth as a fanatic as convinced of divine inspiration and protection as any divine-right Stuart monarch ever could be. But the dominant impression gained of the man is one of militaristic might, of the martial power that was the weakness of the Protectorate, the most direct contributing cause of the Restoration...
...onetime Chief of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of Scotland Yard (TIME, Dec. 28, 1925), secondly Sir Arthur Evans, famed archeologist, discoverer of buried civilizations in Crete, and most reprehensively of all Sir Almeric Fitzroy, onetime Clerk of His Majesty's Privy Council and intimate of that late & lusty monarch Edward...
...clothes and personal effects, carried the goods away on credit and have not yet paid. It is true that they received numerous valuable presents from firms which hoped for further orders. Thus the German Lufthansa company presented to His Majesty a seven-seater three-motored airplane. Generally speaking the Monarch's circumspection in letting contracts or concessions may be considered as due to the fact that the securities market is not yet ripe for any investment in Afghanistan. As the country becomes gradually civilized-a process which King Amanullah is furthering by every means in his power-Afghanistan will...