Word: sovereign
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Meanwhile the Beatissimus Pater, Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pius XI, continues his pretensions to be the sovereign of a State by permitting the daily unfurling of the yellow and white flag of the Roman Church Temporal - a banner displayed even in the U. S., where few Protestants trouble to distinguish it from the crossed keys on a white field which is the standard of the Roman Church Spiritual. That "Rome" has indeed many of the attributes to a State was shown again, last week, when the Holy See concluded a diplomatic pact with that flourishing State Temporal, Czechoslovakia. (See below...
Grim forebodings and impish doubts beset, last week, the mind of George V, King & Emperor. The Church of England prayer book schism had suddenly yawned into a wide abyss. On which side stood the Sovereign? If on both, could he long maintain so wide a straddle? Leaders on both sides, harassed His Majesty, last week, by despatching hundreds of partisan appeals to the royal winter residence, Sandringham House, Norfolk. What to decide...
...between Scylla and Charybdis, namely that slightly more than half the population of the United Kingdom do not belong to the Church of England. It is this majority which (although its individual leaders are less potent than those in the State Church), is probably strong enough to maintain the Sovereign in suspended straddle, until the abyss beneath him closes through conciliation, or is replaced by some such new order of things as disestablishment of the State Church by Parliament...
...speedboat, plunging forward on its cushion of spray, carried His Highness Prince Louis II of Monaco, last week, across shimmering Winyah Bay, South Carolina, to Georgetown. For several days the Sovereign of Monaco had dwelt in complete incognito and obscurity (TIME, Jan. 23) at Hobcan Barony, the luxurious Carolina coast hunting lodge of Manhattan economist Bernard Mannes Baruch. As the speedboat slithered up to a pier at Georgetown, last week, Mr. Baruch and Prince Louis hailed an ancient Negro hackman who drove them to the station. There His Highness entrained for Manhattan, after buying a newspaper...
...Reinhardt's Season?Sovereign importations from Central Europe for those who can surmount the barrier of the German language. (TIME...