Word: sovereigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George V, R. I.: "My importance as sovereign and arbiter elegantarium was emphasized again last week when the press of the world took front page notice of the fact that I was seen in Scotland wearing my trousers creased down the front instead of at the side as is my usual wont. Speculation is rife as to whether I will resume my side creases on returning to London...
...American, that is U. S., news and far too little from anywhere else, and the way you treat the President and all his doings is, to my mind, quite distasteful to a man of liberal and democratic ideas. I have never even in old time royalistic Europe seen a sovereign of any country belly-scraped to as much, as you are doing it to your own popularly elected head of State...
...appropriated by Parliament for the expenses of the sovereign and his house-hold...
President Doumergue and French officials, numberless, bustled to welcome Mulai Yusef, Sultan of Morocco, Amir-el-Mumenin (Prince of True Believers). Soon that portly sovereign was installed in the magnificent residence of Baroness Roger, lent for his accommodation...
Polo. Alfonso XIII, 40, probably the only living sovereign young enough to ride a pirouetting polo pony, played back, one afternoon, for the polo team of the 65th Lancers against the 7th Hussars. With a potent swipe of the royal mallet he split a polo ball both halves of which rolled over the goal line. By that goal the Lancers...