Word: ruler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first task may be to scrap some of the proud ships he now commands. Labor Sea Lord Alexander is a former Baptist lay preacher, the son of a railway engineer. Like the admiral in Pinafore, he "polished up the handles so care-ful-lee, that now he is the ruler of the King's navee." Earnest, hard working, his appointment was greeted with disdainful sniffs in Tory circles which consider the post of First Lord of the Admiralty one of the most important in any government. Last week the Baptist Sea Lord studied hard...
...only a mediocre Medici. In any other family he might have been superb. But the Medicis were a flamboyant line, running to both seraphic and sulphurous extremes. Giuliano's father was Lorenzo the Magnificent, mighty patron of the arts and writer of bawdy ditties, a politically high-minded ruler whose actions were tyrannous. Giuliano's brother was Pope Leo X, a dilettante and politician who palely reflected his father's glories. Giuliano himself had the aquiline features and dark locks of his tribe. But he did not have the spouting energy. He met and married Princess Philiberta...
...French-supported Florentine republic, extant since 1494, fell before the Spanish-supported Medici. Giuliano acquired the title of Gonfaloniere of the Papal Forces. He was the ruler of the so-called republic. He played host at gala fetes and mingled with men of genius. But he was still a mediocre Medici, displaying no creative gifts, governmental or artistic. He died in 1516, when only...
...this announcement the Lord Chamberlain did his best to spike the ever recurring rumor that the king will never resume his duties as ruler again, and that the Prince of Wrales is shortly to be proclaimed Regent_ In this case, of course, the Prince would preside at court, taking his place on the dais with the Queen. Despite the Lord Chamberlain, U. S. newsorgans reprinted the Regency story, insisted on it, and promised that the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin would proclaim the Regency of the Prince of Wales within a month...
Denmark's elongated King, Christian X, dislikes hitches. Things can never run too smoothly to suit the precise mind of the six-foot-five-inch ruler, and yet recently a number of annoying little accidents have happened to His Majesty. A fat Frenchman fell over his feet in the theatre at Cannes (TIME, Feb. 25). He paid a State Visit to Madrid, only to have the Queen-Mother of Spain die suddenly (TIME, Feb. 18). So it has gone. Last week King Christian returned to Denmark from the Riviera, determined that if possible, this voyage should be uneventful...