Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sight that might make any monarch quail last week faced Denmark's tall, saturnine King Christian X. The great, eight-sided courtyard of Amalienborg Palace was jam-packed with strapping, irate Danish farmers in the grip of a grievance. The King, as he peered from his palace, noted on some brawny arms the swastika band of the Danish Nazis, on others the hammer & sickle of Communism (see p. 18). The mob had gathered from the eastern Danish islands, where little farms are thickest, to demand that Premier Theodore Stauning lower farm taxes, raise farm prices, declare a farm mortgage...
...Chicago, police had 50 complaints against Carl ("Red") Burke who goes to strangers' funerals, sobs religiously, wanders into the bedroom, throws all valuables in sight out the window, wanders out the door, collects the valuables, goes away...
...Enemy In Sight!" In July 1914, just eight days before the World War broke, George V reviewed 228 war boats off Spithead in the greatest steam-past of his reign. Last week he scanned 160 war boats, including the Australian flagship, H. M. A. S. Australia which recently brought H. R. H. the Duke of Gloucester home from his tour Down Under (TIME, April 8). Last week Gloucester was marooned on the Australia while the King's other three sons were with His Majesty on the brass-funneled Victorian royal yacht Victoria and Albert. From her forepeak flew...
...dealing with the workings of a shrewd and cunning European mind and doubtless was attracted by the glamor of foreign titles and his contact with Continental nobility. In permitting himself to be deceived by the sham of class or caste based upon the accident of birth, [he] lost sight of the fact that his own country is firmly grounded in principles opposed to divine rights of titled personages...
...Ydewalle writes much of military successes and pre-War diplomacy, tells many an anecdote of highly-placed Germans who admitted their humiliation at the invasion of Belgium, his chapters on the War years are strangely naive and repetitious. Determined to establish Germany's guilt, he seems to lose sight of his king in his search for a code of ethics in modern warfare. But in a brilliant chapter on the King and his reign, Biographer d'Ydewalle characterizes the daily routine of royalty in terms that are enlightening. Plagued by intriguing politicians, the highest compliment Albert could...