Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That there is indeed a king of kings, though George V eschews the title, is never so apparent as when His Majesty draws to London the fabulous elect of India's native rulers, kings in their own realms. In wealth, sheer undevaluable silver, gold and gems, nearly every potentate in London last week surpassed George V. But there was the usual tendency in the English Press to outfable the fabulous. That potentate of potentates, His Highness the Maharaja of Patiala, Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes, was assumed to have taken a "whole floor" at the Savoy Hotel, assumed...
...English friends call him "The Englishman," their highest praise. Last week "The Englishman" took an entire floor at the Carlton Hotel, gave no parties, did no shopping, but dropped in on his numerous English friends. Before leaving India he flung a largesse of $20,000 for celebration of the Silver Jubilee in his State of Bikaner, spent $50,000 building the George V Silver Jubilee Memorial Library of Bikaner...
London police this week found a well dressed, be-monocled Englishman sleeping in an ash can, having started to sit up all night to get a view of King George's Silver Jubilee and imperceptibly slumped in, dozed off. Scotland Yard decided that to control the vast crowds which filled London's sidewalks and streets all night was both impossible and unnecessary. On the vast marble base of the Victoria Monument directly in front of Buckingham Palace a working class family camped elaborately, the husband shaving himself with brush dips into the fountain, then lighting an alcohol stove...
...bright May day warmed up. United Press reported the fainting in pack-jammed London crowds of 7,000 women, quickly resuscitated by mobile Red Cross units. The first of the seven State Processions converging on St. Paul's Cathedral for the Silver Jubilee Service was that of Speaker of the House of Commons, Captain Edward FitzRoy. the ancient Speaker's Coach being pulled by brewery horses driven by a brewery teamster arrayed for this one day in blue plush breeches, buff coat, full-bottomed wig, tricorn...
...Silver-haired Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald led off the second procession-six carriages, each with a British Premier-Canada's Bennett riding cheek by jowl with South Africa's Hertzog...