Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Edward VIII less than a year ago abdicated the throne of England to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, it was clear that almost anything he did thereafter would be a painful anticlimax. Last week, the activities of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor attained a crescendo of anticlimax that was almost as newsworthy as the abdication. The crescendo started with the arrival in the U. S. last fortnight of a Mephistophelean little Franco-American efficiency expert, named Charles E. Bedaux, as advance agent for the proposed Windsor tour of the U. S. to study housing and industry, scheduled to start...
...Russian aristocracy reduced to romantic humility is saved from triteness by the simple addition of four billion francs, entrusted by the old tsar to the Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna and her consort, Prince Mikail Alexandrovitch Ouratieff, to be delivered to the new tsar whenever he should ascend the imperial throne...
...Majesty Queen Elizabeth, enthroned in the House of Lords, sat with lowered eyes and attentive mien last week while His Majesty King George notably triumphed over his speech impediment, read off without a single mispronounced word and with few hesitations the Speech from the Throne, thus opened the first Parliament of the new reign. The 18-minute speech, composed as usual by the Cabinet, promised that His Majesty's Government will: press on with Rearmament; speed air raid precautions; inaugurate penal law reforms; regulate the coal mining, electric power, milk and whitefish industries ; combat stock frauds; add judges...
According to Labor speakers, the Speech from the Throne was a "cowardly" desertion of the League of Nations, and this desertion has been "progressive" in each Speech from the Throne for several years, thus...
Belligerently in Buckingham Palace the heiress to the Throne, strong-willed little Princess Elizabeth, bothered the King & Queen at this juncture in World affairs by insisting that she and her little sister Princess Margaret Rose be permitted to ride with Their Majesties in the glittering State Coach to the opening of Parliament this week. Their Majesties had resolved that their little daughters shall not be "spoiled" by too much public acclaim. Princess Elizabeth lost her battle at the last moment and she and her sister rode to the opening in the coach of Lady Helen Graham, which followed the royal...