Word: monarchism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play in silent films but it has a few amusing sequences. Pola Negri, as a celebrated lady of the stage, is enamored of a captain in the Royal Guards (Basil Rathbone). She finds herself closeted with the King who, as played by Roland Young, is an elegantly frowzy little monarch with no regal pretensions beyond that of giggling quietly at his own wisecracks. Presently, by royal command. Miss Negri is married to the King while her guardsman is jailed for failing to salute her. The King's marriage causes his subjects to denounce him as a buffoon, but they...
Into Bermuda's port of Hamilton one day last week steamed the Monarch of Bermuda, bearing 350 General Electric refrigerator salesmen and other passengers and crew. That night (it was balmy) a member of the crew stealthily entered the home of Mrs. Gustav Pagenstecher. Mrs. Pagenstecher awoke with a scream, cried out that she was being attacked. Her maid heard, dashed to the rescue. The intruder transferred his attentions to her. The maid, quick-witted, seized a hatchet, which by chance Mrs. Pagenstecher had in her bedroom, and with a blow on the head drove the man from...
Next morning Mrs. Pagenstecher & maid went to the police. Their assailant, said they, was slim, young, pale. His demeanor, even during the process of attempted assault was not discourteous. Perhaps he was a waiter or a steward. Accompanied by the police Mrs. Pagenstecher & maid went aboard the Monarch of Bermuda. Hiding in his berth they found one Peter Paul Jencius, 18. On his head was the hatchet mark that Mrs. Pagenstecher's maid had blazed...
...week Rotarian Pascall sailed from Southampton with his wife and Daughter Joan for a triumphal tour of the world. Only a few days before he had returned to Britain from a 15,000-mile tour of the Rotary Clubs of the U. S. "I was treated like a reigning monarch," said he, "and each Rotary Club I went to gave me something to remember them by -rings, quilts, gavels, cigaret cases, note cases and a stuffed baby alligator. "To give you an example of the hustle at Philadelphia, I was attending a banquet there when a man came...
...indeed the beloved leveret will frequent his castle no more, the university has suffered an irreplaceable loss. A nondescript jackrabbit might satisfy the vulgar and undiscriminating, but only the original leporine monarch or his direct descendant could command the loyalty of the legitimists...