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...kneel at her feet. He placed his hands between his Queen's and spoke for the Established Church: "I will be faithful and true, and faith and truth will bear unto you, our Sovereign Lady . . . Defender of the Faith." Next came Philip, her husband, first peer of the realm. "I, Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, do become your liege man of life and limb, and of earthly worship: and faith and truth I will bear unto you, to live and die against all manner of folks. So help me God." The Duke touched his sovereign's Crown, kissed...
...tightly knit, nor is the Crown so powerful, as the Empire that Disraeli proclaimed for Victoria, adding the jewel of India to her crown. Ireland and Burma have broken completely free. The countries formerly called dominions today prefer to be called by the less-subservient name "realm." Six of them (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Pakistan, Ceylon and South Africa) recognize Elizabeth as their own individual Queen as well as Queen of the Commonwealth, but three of these (Ceylon, Pakistan and South Africa) do not accept her as Defender of the Faith. The seventh realm, India, is a republic, and does...
...done, a few of the coaches' complaints will be eliminated and the College will be able to bank on a steadily increasing stream of applicants for admission. If this is done, Green Key will have fulfilled its status as a service organization in a more important, a more lasting realm...
Daredevils they were, and their countries vowed never to forget them. For four years of World War I, they got 100 m.p.h. out of tin-Lizzie aircraft that bucked like hiccuping buzzards, flying by the seat of their pants, tossing bombs like baseball pitches, extending the realm of human conflict to the third and last element...
...Perfect Day for Bananafish" is an example of Salinger at his slickest, there are two bed time tales in the collection that should be rated in the short story field just about where Charles Addams' work ranks in the realm of cartoons. The main difference between Salinger and Addams, however, is that it's difficult to laugh off Salinger's stories. The characters are all people we might know, not ghouls. "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" shows a malformed little girl wandering about in dreams of terrible unreality while her mother and a friend get drunker and drunker in the next...