Word: reigning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...newshawks Hibernian Sweeney later explained: "I recall that it was during King George's reign that the Black & Tans invaded Ireland. . . . Many of my relatives were among the victims of that outrage. ... I had nothing against the King personally, but he represented a symbol not in harmony with our democracy. I intend to protest against the whole thing...
...whom we do acknowledge all faith and constant obedience with all hearty and humble affection: beseeching God, by whom Kings and Queens do reign, to bless (he royal Prince Edward VIII with long, happy years to reign over...
...experts said, if Edward VIII stamps of the same denominations were issued now. But work began at once changing the G. R. (Georgius Rex) on 9,000 mail vans to E. R. (Edvardus Rex). So desultory is this job that during the 26 years of George V's reign not all the postal vans were equipped to correspond with his name, and last week many still marked E. R. for the Seventh Edward were ordered left as they are for the Eighth. George V, when the Royal Mint was preparing to strike his coins, commanded: "Make...
...club. He often popped off to rove restlessly and sympathetically about the slums, exclaiming at scenes of squalor "How ghastly!", but he did pop off, often with Americans and nearly always to points beyond the orbit of those responsible British states men over whom the new King must now reign while they rule. For the sheer energy of this light, lean King the ruled class have a special liking, because to them so many British employers seem languid and over fed. Edward VIII is appropriately a "snappy" King. The extreme difficulty of finding for Britain a future "snappy" Queen among...
...time of the recent Silver Jubilee very nearly every newsorgan in the world exhaustively reviewed the lives of King George and Queen Mary and the events of their 25-year reign. As Privy Councilors journeyed down to Sandringham and prepared to "put the crown in a commission" (i. e. establish a Council of State to act for George V as was done during his 1928-29 illness), the nation and the world watched ever more intently Their Majesties' eldest son. At Sandringham the Clerk of the Privy Council, Sir Maurice Hankey, handed the order establishing the Council of State...