Word: monarchism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this beast "safe?" Should a 65-year-old monarch ride a prancing, snorting cavalry mount? Discreet inquiry revealed that Steed B102 was nicknamed, by the cavalrymen who were his intimates, "Old Armchair...
...Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (1918), Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George (1919), Knight Commander of the Bath (1926). (He must wear the insignia of those orders at the Winnipeg medical convention.) Professionally he had been "made" long before. It is ten years since his grateful monarch and good friend elevated him to the peerage. He chose the title Lord Dawson of Penn because (it is said) he traces his ancestry to the great William Penn's family...
...career as a peer commenced. Then outside the Abbey he abruptly encounters Anquetil, returned from the jungle to marry Viola on the strength of a six-year correspondence. Anquetil renews his invitation for an exploring expedition. Sebastian accepts. The story ends with an intimation that under the new monarch will come new manners, and the brilliant, flighty society that Sebastian is renouncing has nearly run its course...
...Imperial Majesty Reza Khan Pahlavi listened to entreaty and, with a grand gesture, has given his official patronage to a Second International Exhibition of Persian Art* forthcoming at London's Burlington House, Jan. 5 to March 1, 1931. He went further and did what no Persian monarch before him dreamed of doing: gave official sanction for the Exhibition's experts to select loan exhibits from the Royal collection, Imperial Library, National Museum, the famed mosques of Kum, Ardebil and Mashad's Imam Reiza...
...monarch in his way, Inventor Thomas Alva Edison can also indulge his propensity for asking trick questions, rewarding him who gives the wisest answers. Nine years ago he compiled for his prospective employes a list of puzzlers which provided table talk in U. S. homes for weeks afterward. Last year he gathered 49 handpicked boys just graduated from their high schools, offered a prize of expenses and tuition to any college for four years to the one who did best in an examination he submitted to them (TIME, Aug. 12, 1929). Last week 49 more boys journeyed to West Orange...