Word: plantagenets
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Though Clemence Dane's "Broome Stages" is a novel of seven generations of a theatrical family, Miss Dane found her inspiration in the Plantagenet kings and not in any of the great stage families. She had always considered the Plantagenets the most interesting family in the world but thought the period too far back in history to make an interesting setting for a book. Then someone suggested that she could write about the Plantagenets if she made them actors, for actors are autocrats and the great families of the stage are the last dynasties that exercise the divine rights...
...Plantagenet itself is not so great a name in Britain now as Isaacs. When Rufus Daniel Isaacs retired, upon receiving his present rank of Marquess of Reading (TIME, May 3, 1926), he had been Viceroy of India and Lord Chief Justice of England. He ranks today as the foremost Liberal "elder statesman." And last week the Empire was again made acutely Isaacs-conscious. In Melbourne, Australia, that vigorous, strong-faced old jurist, Sir Isaac Isaacs, is Chief Justice of the Dominion. He it was to whom Laborite Prime Minister James Henry Scullin turned last week, seeking a new governor general...
...September 26, 1814 three British ships, the "Carnation", "Rota", and "Plantagenet" came into the harbor, and their crews put out in rowboats to try to board the American privateer by surprise. They were repulsed, and half of the 400 English sailors were killed...
Nearly 750 years ago that traveling Plantagenet, Richard Coeur de Lion, on one of his infrequent visits to England, imported the white swan and decreed that it was a "bird royal," to be owned only by the king and a few favored nobles. Later this privilege was extended to two great medieval corporations, the Honorable Company of Vintners and the Worshipful Guild of Dyers. A ceremony was instituted, whereby representatives of the King, of the Vintners and of the Dyers were to row up the Thames each summer marking and dividing between them all the little brown cygnets which...
...Desborough at the head of the speakers' table surrounded by the greatest diplomatic personages in London. At Yeoman Desborough's right in the seat of honor was Charles Gates Dawes, the newly-arrived U. S. Ambassador. At his left was Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson. Next to Mr. Dawes was plantagenet-beaked Sir Austen Chamberlain, the outgone Foreign Secretary, and beyond him Sir Austen's good friend, French Ambassador Monsieur de Fleurian. Also at the speakers' table were the Ambassadors of Germany, Japan, Belgium, Brazil, and the Italian Charge d'Affaires, Count Ruggeri...