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Squatting on their heels, the farmers watched a change of the palace guard, grinned at this show of pomp. Still squatting, they watched King Christian appear on a balcony. Said His Majesty: "Since I am a constitutional King, I can only advise you to negotiate with the Premier. I hope that your justifiable grievances may produce a remedy." At this the farmers good-humoredly raised a cheer for perspiring King Christian, then squatted, Gandhi-fashion, for a total of four hours...
With headquarters at the Hotel Somerset in Boston, the Class of 1885 is celebrating its fiftieth reunion with almost as much pomp and vigor as the twenty-fifth reunion class...
...Mary Curley, 26, only daughter of Governor James Michael Curley of Massachusetts, "First Lady of the Commonwealth"; and Lieut.-Colonel Edward Calvin Donnelly, Boston adman; by William Cardinal O'Connell at Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross. First State wedding in Massachusetts history, surrounded by the pomp & panoply of a royal nuptial, the ceremony was witnessed by 3,000 persons including twelve blushing policemen in hired cutaways, striped trousers, silk hats, ascot ties, grey spats and puce-colored vests...
...saying, Franklin Roosevelt swung around to the desk above him where Vice President Garner and Speaker Byrns had sat in sphinxlike pomp and handed Speaker Byrns the vetoed Bonus Bill and the original of his speech. While applause rang through the House Speaker Byrns wrung the President's hand, congratulated...
...royal rights and marry commoners. The women of his family, however, behave better about such things. His niece, the Princess Astrid, is now Queen of the Belgians, and last week his pretty 25-year-old granddaughter, Princess Ingrid, made him feel every inch a King by marrying with much pomp & ceremony the 6-ft. 5-in. heir to the throne of Denmark, hulking, kindly 36-year-old Crown Prince Frederick...