Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Children of the U. S. can count glibly, "five pennies are a nickel, two nickels are a dime;" but children of the Irish Free State must become even glibber. They must count in the following strange fashion...
Such counting was actually studied last week by Irish tots, fingering and counting bright new Irish Free State coins, each adorned with a harp on one side and on the other animals as follows...
Throughout the week Irish Free State news-organs published hundreds of letters from irate citizens, most of whom wanted to know why neither St. Patrick nor the Shamrock appears on any of the new coins. The Committee on Coins, which chose the designs, is chairmanned by symbol-loving Poet William Butler Yeats, winner of the Nobel Prize. Shrewd Poet Yeats offered no explanation or defense of the coins, merely observing that the designs were made by Sculptor Percy Metcalfe of Yorkshire, England, who triumphed in competition with such Masters as Paul Manship and Ivan Mestrovic...
...Principality, embers of revolution were a-glowing. The first alarm was sounded when the Parliament of Monaco -called the National Council-resigned en masse. The second alarm was figuratively turned in by Monaco's one Minister of State, florid, flustered M. Louis Eugene Maurice Piette, after the Communal Council of Monaco. Like delighted children at a fire, the tourists and gamblers of Monte Carlo shrilled questions: "Is it really a revolution? What's it all about? What will the Prince do when he gets here...
...simple, believing rustic was dragged away, the "Son of Heaven" looked down compassionately through spectacles, from his great Louis XIV State Coach. Above the gorgeous vehicle a golden phoenix perched with wings spread-symbol of divine and inextinguishable Radiance. If the little slant-eyed man in spectacles really believes that he can talk with his Divine Ancestress Amaterasu-0-Mikami-as he is supposed to do several times a year-the farmer's plea must have stirred in His Majesty strange emotions...