Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Royal Ride. Fairytalewise the State Coach of gold and glass drew up at the portal of Buckingham Palace. The eight superb, matched horses champed their eight matched bits. In another instant the King-Emperor would venture out, alone. Suddenly came an impudent diversion...
...Scene of State. In the, royal Robing Room, at Westminster, His Majesty donned once more "the ermine, the purple and the crown." Within the great Gothic hall of the House of Lords, Edward of Wales had already bowed to the empty Throne and "taken his place beside it. Through ancient stained glass, pale rays of daylight sifted. The Peers & Bishops sat robed and waiting. Justices were capped by wigs as big as beehives. Peeresses, crowding the gallery, wore again the flexible, diamond-studded bandeaux first introduced last year to replace old-fashioned tiaras...
...King's Privy Council, Earl Balfour, kneels and presents a scroll containing "The King's Speech." Slowly it unrolls between the Sovereign's fingers and he begins to read: ". . . My relations with the Foreign Powers continue to be friendly. . . . My Government . . . my Secretary of State for India . . . my Army . . . my Navy . . . my Empire...
...considering "carefully and sympathetically" a proposal by the U. S. State Department to replace the expiring British-U. S. arbitration treaty of 1908 by one similar to that just signed between the U. S. and France (TIME...
...Robert M. Crowe, Negro and not to be confused with Robert E. Crowe, State's Attorney for Cook County (which Chicago entirely occupies), had assaulted a white woman, and escaped...