Word: monarchism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made appropriate remarks, the Olympic Club sang a song. A three-gun salute was fired by a battalion of the 159th U. S. Infantry, taps were bugled by an American Legion post. Provided by sentimental citizens with the honors his dust had waited 54 years to receive, the giddy monarch rested at last beneath a shaft marked...
WILLIAM, otherwise the Bastard of Failaise, sat in his ducal castle at Rouen and meditated on the weakness and perfidy of kings. He was fully as strong as his Capetian overlord on the East, and he had put that monarch firmly in his place on several occasions, taking bits of disputed territory to prove it. But fendal law was still in the eleventh century: William never thought of aspiring to the crown of France. His ambition lay in another direction...
...many hard questions. When she saw his wisdom, his piety, his house, his banquet table, his servants and their apparel, she renounced her skepticism and "there was no more spirit in her." From that lack of spirit, according to Abyssinian legend, sprang the line of Abyssinia's present monarch, crafty brown Haile Selassie. The Arabian version has it that the Queen of Sheba's name was Balkis, that she went to Solomon in fear and trembling. Consensus of scholars is that the capital of Saba (Sheba) was Mareb, about 750 mi. from last week's putative discovery...
...usually refer to the British Monarch as "George V,'' and couch the rest of the reference in language which suggests the outlook of a Kahlege Kid from the Bible Belt, rather than of the only newspaper with a modern orientated intelligence published in the Anglo-Saxon tongue...
...could have his way Henry Pu Yi would like to be proclaimed constitutional Emperor of Manchukuo with as simple and comfortable a ceremony as the proclamation of last week's other new monarch, Leopold III of Belgium. But the Japan that picked him from the Chinese discard ten years ago has not paid his bills for nothing. Japan needs him as a symbol before the world of Manchukuo's independence, a hollow-eyed figurehead to distract Manchurian peasants with the pomp of a royal court...