Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rheumatic pains in His Majesty's right hip ("nothing serious") kept George V from standing before or sitting upon his Throne last week. Nevertheless the last two Royal Courts of the season were held, with Queen Mary, who became 63 last week, standing with tireless grace for three hours before her Throne. George V's birthday gift to the Queen and Empress whom he calls "May" was a diamond pendant. No one could say whether she wore it or not at the Court, so encrusted was she with ropes, pendants and brooches of diamonds...
...tone of the story leaves an impression of dullness rather than the solemn grandeur that is the author's intent. The character of this banker in a small German principality--a man who reaches the position of the Duke's favorite, and himself almost provides the heir to the throne--is a powerful creation, but the presentation never lives up to the possibilities of the story...
Down on his knees before "Little Otto" went Albrecht last week, renounced all his claims to the throne, swore fealty. "I know, sire," said he, "that you will attain your majority in a few months, and, as I am leaving for South America, I thought it fit to pledge my devotion to Your Majesty...
Conversation. "An official called the room to silence and asked the ladies to modify their conversation in the throne room...
...well with Virginians. Tall, sturdy, slow-but-sure North Chinamen despise and are despised by South Chinamen, small, nimble, slick. Last week China resumed on a grand scale her civil war between North and South. It has been dragging on, in one form or another, ever since the Dragon Throne was upset by the revolution of 1911. Observers noted that this time the battle is between forces headed by the four best men of North, and South...