Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Slighted Excellencies. At Rome ambassadors of every Power were caught last week upon the tender hip of precedence. Their Excellencies represent, technically, the actual person of the sovereign or president who despatched them to Rome. As such they receive the precedence which would be due U. S. President Coolidge or the King-Emperor George V. Yet last week, Premier Mussolini rushed through a Cabinet decree raising the Secretary General of the Fascist party to precedence over all ambassadors, ministers or special envoys. This is unprecedented. New Dating. Hot-headed observers saw a new breach of usage, a new aggrandizement...
...plain gold and ivory rattle, ordered by sensible Catherine the Great for her children; 4) a gold stage-coach four inches long and an inch and a half high with a 20-carat diamond* cut like a lantern swinging within; 5) the Queen Victoria paper weight, displaying that sovereign carved dumpily in jade, wearing a diamond crown...
...humor. I only hope that your correspondent is not endeavoring to enter the arena as a propagandist and bring any misunderstanding between the good feeling of this country and the good feeling of that country of which the Prince of Wales will in years to come be the reigning Sovereign...
...rumor spread wildfirewise through Rumania last week that King Ferdinand lay dead in his palace, but that the fact would be concealed until after the return of Queen Marie to Bucharest. From every major Capital, Rumanian diplomats protested indignantly that their Sovereign was alive.* Meanwhile the Rumanian Court Chamberlain, General Angelesco, sped to meet Queen Marie on her arrival at Cherbourg...
...death of King Edward VI (only son of Henry VIII of England) was concealed for two days, and the dead sovereign youth was actually propped up for a few hours at a window of his palace. The reason: "so that the people may see that he is still alive...