Word: v
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...death and Cromwell was proclaimed Lord Protector; in the place where the King's Champion used to ride in on a charger and challenge to mortal combat anyone who questioned the right of the King to the Crown; where for many years Coronation Banquets were held, King George V said that " Westminster Hall appealed in a special manner to the mind and manner of the whole English-speaking race. For centuries it had witnessed the growth of the Constitution and had been, as it were, a link between the Crown and the people...
Jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxing champion, has broken the charmed circle of Culture. A portrait of the pugilist by Alonzo V. Lewis, of Seattle, hangs in an exhibition of Western art at the Kansas City Art Institute, between a Spring Landscape and Indian Summer. The director of the Institute is in two minds about it. His first emotion was that "art was being degraded"; his second that "boxing is a man's game and a natural occupation " and therefore presumably as worthy of perpetuation in oil as any other slice of life. There is ample precedent; the Luxembourg...
Gustaf Adolf, elder son of King Gustavus V, is engaged to be married to Lady Louise Alexandria Marie Irene Mountbatten, youngest daughter of the late Admiral of the Fleet, the Marquis of Milfordhaven (formerly Prince Louis of Battenburg), sister of the present Marquis and first cousin of King George. She was born July...
...most brilliant young literary man in England. Pleasant, intelligent, rather entertaining little papers. The astonishing thing about them is that they are so mild. So very mild. The book might have been written by almost any bright young gentleman who chose to model his style on that of E. V. Lucas. Did you ever think you were about to degust a genuine pre-War cocktail and then discover as you swallowed that the beverage was strictly...
Engaged. Gustaf Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden, 41, to Lady Louise Mountbatten, 43, cousin of George V. (See page...