Word: monarchism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the Dictator Premier considers his power appreciably bolstered by the plebiscite was seen last week when he telephoned King Alfonso XIII and asked if the monarch would pardon several artillery officers implicated in the recently suppressed mutiny against the Government (TIME, July 5 et ceq.). Replied King Alfonso over the telephone, "Si! I will pardon them." Forthwith the mutineers' sentences (one, the death penalty) were commuted...
...living monarch, it is certain, has fought a harder fight for health or been more cruelly defeated. As a child Yoshihito was as delicate as was the late U. S. President Roosevelt in his infancy. For a time it seemed that the great care taken of his health and his determination to gain strength by exercise and prudent dieting would succeed. He was given his own palace and a staff of medical experts who devoted their entire time to his care. At eight years of age he had grown strong enough to attend the Japanese School of Peers, where...
...that she is in reality the grand duchess he was to have been forced to wed. The whole affair is safely routine with one outstanding exception. For Rudolph Schildkraut, father of the film's leading man, gives such a delightful portrayal of an easy-going and life-loving monarch that he not only wins all the acting honors, but also gives Young April a charming quality it doesn't deserve...
...Archives Building in order to preserve for posterity historical films. Spokesman Coolidge expressed himself as favorably impressed with the idea, pointed out how educational it would be if this generation could observe President Lincoln delivering his Gettysburg address. The little man, no stranger to Presidents, was Movie Monarch Will H. Hays and as he walked the grounds of White Pine Camp, he seemed strangely pleased...
...everyone knows, Shakespeare's dramas, Henry IV and Henry V, trace the development of "Prince Hal," from the days when he consorted with wild tavern rakes until he ascended the throne as Henry V, spurned Falstaff, became renowned as a monarch sagacious and brave...