Word: royale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carol "the brightest hour must end" and the hunters par excellence, the glory of their age must leave their royal master. Sportsmen sigh, men of fashion are beginning to attend automobile shows and shop girls sob. Everywhere are heard encomiums tinctured with the sorrow of seeing the brilliance of the present fading into the obscurity of the past. Great metropolitan newspapers weep by the column for the glory that once shone on these princely steeds. The world is mourning and grimly faces the dark future...
While the King-Emperor lay battling for life in Buckingham Palace (TIME, Dec. 3, et seq.), the royal and imperial authority was exercised in an adjoining room by the Regency Council, presided over by Queen Mary. Last week the U. S. Department of Agriculture rushed to news-publications "for immediate release" the text of "An Order in Council issued at Buckingham Palace on Dec. 21, 1928," and apparently just discovered by the Department...
Fact. A few days previously King Al fonso signed a royal decree empowering the government: 1) To impose a fine of from 25 to 2,500 pesetas ($3.80 to $380), and imprisonment from one to 14 days on anyone arrested by the police and pro nounced guilty by the Minister of the Interior, General Martinez Anido. of "speaking in a public place against the government, the Crown, or the interests of the Nation;" 2) To suppress any society or club upon whose premises such speaking may occur; 3) To dismiss any employe of the State deemed hostile to the government...
Does the Harvard Lampoon hit too hard, or are academic communities abnormally thin-skinned? At royal courts the function of the king's fool was to rush in where statesmen feared to tread. It was recognized as one needful to the safety of monarchy itself. The true word spoken in jest might be the salvation of the throne. Shall opinion in a modern university be more autocratic than monarchy, and revoke the jester's license...
During the past several weeks Prince Barbu Stirby's chauffeur has been cashing at the Bank Generale, in Bucharest, large checks drawn against the Royal Exchequer, in virtue of His Highness' former authority as Keeper of the Privy Purse. Officials of the Bank Generale all know that the Prince has ceased to hold that office. Yet the chief teller paid the checks on sight, paid...