Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whatever time his advisers deemed least favorable to the rival parties (Laborite & Liberal). He might spring a "surprise election" in early May, or dawdle along until late June. So long as docile Britons are called to cast their ballots within the legal period of five years after the present House of Commons was elected (Oct. 29, 1924), good Squire Baldwin has as much liberty of choice as a Dowager Duchess deciding in July which hymns her servitors will sing at Christmas...
...present Government [Conservative] is concerned," twinkled Liberal Lloyd George, "I prefer to rely on the latter alternative...
...thee, therefore, Olaf, in the presence of God and this Christian assembly, wilt thou have Martha here present to be thy wedded wife...
Also plainly visible from the fjord is Norse King Haakon's long, plaster-white Kongelige Slot or royal palace. Among connoisseurs the Slot is recognized as Norway's architectural family skeleton. Cheaply and hastily thrown together when the present dynasty of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg was established in Norway in 1905, it compares pitiably with Sweden's imposing Kungliga Slottet in Stockholm (Venice of the North), whence came last week Princess Martha to Oslo. As every Scandinavian knows the Kings of Sweden were also the elected Kings of Norway from 1814 until 1905, when the Storting (parliament...
...this is the man who, according to the present discerning biographer, "shares with Walt Whitman the distinction of being the greatest imaginative writer that America has produced; his epic, Moby Dick, is one of the supreme poetic monuments of the English language; and in depth of experience and religious insight there is scarcely any one in the nineteenth century, with the exception of Dostoyevsky, who can be placed beside...