Word: monarchal
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...stand now in the position of a monarch whose crown is tottering. Last week was a bad one for me, but I'm man enough to take my beating without excuses--just as any Forecast would. I am giving Joe Jr. an example of huge moral courage, letting him learn anew the significance of the motto, or the Forecast coat-of-arms. We stood together in my library my hand on little Joe's shoulder; and I pointed to the famous Forecast crest--crossed shovels, a sitting bull couchant on a field gules argent, with the scutcheon emblazoned "Nimmermehr Alibi...
...Tsar Nicholas II, tells in a book Rasputin* (ras-poo-teen), published in the U. S. last week, how the peasant monk wove a "tangle of dark intrigue, egotistical self-seeking, hysterical madness and vainglorious pursuit of power, which wrapped the throne in an impenetrable web and isolated the monarch from his people"; how in greasy boots he walked over the imperial parquets; how he gained almost complete mastery over the Tsar and Tsarina; how Prince Yussupov and the Grand Duke Dimitri, murdered him in an attempt to deliver the royal couple from his clutches and threw his body into...
...mother, Dowager Queen Marie, who was reported to have been greatly angered when informed that M. Bratino had dared to open it. Also, he was alleged to have with him a photostat of a document signed by his late father, King Ferdinand, in which it is said that the monarch advised M. Bratiano to recall Carol if he showed signs of being worthy of trust...
...wrong. Earl Balfour, onetime (1902-05) Prime Minister, the biographer reveals, was annoyed because "The King has treated me with scant courtesy." The King thought the Earl of Oxford and Asquith (then Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith) was "reticent, secretive, reserved" and that he deliberately withheld information from his monarch. On one occasion he wrote to Premier Asquith asking him to tell Reginald McKenna, then First Lord of the Admiralty, now Chairman of the Midland Bank, that it was "his duty to keep His Majesty informed of fleet movements, to say nothing of common courtesy...
...ceremony was simple, so simple in fact that the monarch and his entourage entered the building by a side door. There were no red carpet, no flowers, no decorations on the Palace, no brilliant uniforms; King, Dictator, Delegates were all dressed in sombre morning attire. The only splash of color was supplied by the Princes of the Church in their Cardinal red. This drab setting was to emphasize the fact that the Assembly is a working body and not a fountain of useless rhetoric...