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When King Frederick Perry I of England abdicated the throne of amateur tennis last autumn to woo the almighty dollar, the heir-apparent was Prince Donald Budge of the U. S., unless .aging Pretender Jack Crawford of Australia could make good his claim. At stake was more than the throne. Without King Frederick, England had little chance of retaining the Davis Cup, and the challenge round for that 37-year-old receptacle, which Australasia and France have each won six times, Great Britain nine times and the U. S. ten times (but not since 1926), would really be the American...
After receiving Mr. Smith, Pius XI gave a general audience for some 400 newly weds and pilgrims from the U. S., India, France, Germany, Canada and Spain. He honored Mr. Smith by seating him in front of the Papal throne and intoning to the throng: "We have with us today a beautiful and worthy representative of America in the person of Mr. Smith, who does honor to all he represents in America and above all to his name and profession as a son of the Catholic Church. ... A man about whom there has been much discussion in important...
...lose his throne. England can not have such a king and be England still. The wind is whisking the newspapers around the room, under my feet they rip and tear and rustle. Camera shots, headlines. Where are there headlines in Shakespeare? Enter Henry Bolingbroke. Enter Stanley Baldwin. "The Prime Minister and Mrs. Baldwin spent a quiet week-end at Chequers, their home in the country." Enter King Richard, attended. Enter the Dukes of Lancaster and Gloucester. "The proper wife of the Duke of Gloucester, herself the daughter of a wealthy Scottish industrialist, leads a quiet social life and disapproves...
...newspapers have stayed in the room too long. They should be thrown away every morning. Enter King Richard. He is not a king. He has lost his throne...
...document in either fiction or non-fiction lists. It is, in short, a mirror of the early Victorian era. In the character of Frances Harcourt the reader is led through the highways and byways of that period when the tiny, buxom, fairy-Queen Victoria was about to ascend the throne of England. Fanny, a native of Norfolk, prepares her pilgrimage to London to see the coronation which was to occur sometime that summer; no one seemed to know exactly when...