Word: vii
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the great, mournful bell of St. Paul's pealed for the first time since the death of Edward VII; tolled for the Dowager Queen Alexandra, his royal consort, who died of a lingering heart trouble at Sandringham, their onetime summer home...
...blatantly on the inside of everything, and can entertain the curious with bons mots and moth-eaten scandal for four hundred pages. The Greville Memoirs (unexpurgated--think of it!) are shortly to be published in this country; and the juicier bits about Queen Victoria, Lord Byron, the late Edward VII, and Disraeli will be aired to the great satisfaction of publishers and readers alike...
...coronation scene of Edward VII, a fire scene, a storm scene and Washing the Baby-those were the four strips that an Englishman named Martin had brought LeRoy a quarter of a century ago. Inventor LeRoy had got to thinking about...
Articles VI and VII assert that the present treaty in no way undermines either the Treaty of Versailles or the authority of League; and "shall not be interpreted as restricting the duty of the League to take whatever action may be deemed wise and effectual to safeguard the peace of the world...
...from the French General of Napoleon the Great's time, General Bernadotte, who was adopted as heir by the childless King of Sweden [becoming King Charles XIV, 1818-1844]. Prince Olaf of Norway is said to have inherited the shrewd and clever brain of his grandfather, King Edward VII of England, while his first cousin, the Prince of Wales, has inherited Edward VII's social tact and charm...