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...from out the East. Allahabad's ancient altars, Allah ruled, were not the least. . . . Oboe outbursts blatted blithely, beating drums too, bellowed near. Bedizened elephants and camels, caused a ringing round of cheer. This was time for fun and feasting, flout all thought of foolish fear. But a monarch of the forest flung his head in furious rage, Naught he cared for sovereign sahib, sought some foe now to engage; While the crowd in panic parted, perilled pundits sought a sage. . . . Through the throng just then there thundered, Than upon his tawny steed. Here the crowd went wild with...
...general manager who will figuratively shovel out these tons of bonds may be a "boy"' but is ripe in tradition. King Louis XV of France was "carved" (as His Majesty expressed it) by Surgeon François Quesnay (ancestor) whom the monarch nicknamed Le Penseur for his philosophical cast of mind. The present M. Quesnay might be called a "career man" of the Bank of France. He functioned as chief French technical advisor last year when Rumania's Leu was being stabilized. At the first and second Hague Conference he prepared the whole documental background of the French...
Next to Japan, Hungary is the most monarchial nation, all the more so because it has no monarch. As U. S. citizens yearn for liquids the Constitution forbids, so Hungarians, because the Allies will not permit the restoration of the Habsburgs, passionately want a king...
Frances, Countess of Warwick, 68, widow, philanthropist, wrote in the April Cosmopolitan:-"! prophesy with no small amount of confidence that King George V ?or maybe his successor?will appear in history as the last monarch of his nation. . . . The Prince of Wales would make an admirable first president of a new republic...
...Apple Cart. In the later years of his life George Bernard Shaw, his spirit and eloquence unimpaired, has relinquished Socialism and the kindred shibboleths of his younger days to make obeisance before his King and, by implication, every wise, considerate monarch who ever occupied a throne. The hero of the first Shavian drama in six years is Magnus, an English ruler of the future. Skyscrapers now loom above London; the betasselled chambers of Buckingham Palace have been renovated in the glass-and-metal fashions of the modernists; poverty has been eliminated, and all England is a jerry-built, bourgeois panorama...