Word: vii
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premiership is not an office and the holder has no legal power over his fellow members Until 1905 the position was unrecognized but in December of that year King Edward VII signed a royal warrant granting Premiers of Britain precedence next after the Archbishop of York, or twelfth in the table of precedency. * The last time a sovereign of Britain refused assent to a bill was in 1707. when Queen Anne withheld assent to the Scotch Militia Bill...
...Queen Mother, Alexandra, now going on 80. Possessor of innumerable court secrets, he was mum as a headstone. A publisher sent him a blank check so that he could fix his own price for a book of reminiscences ; he tore up the check. In the days when Edward VII was a rollicking Prince of Wales, Knollys was often the butt of practical jokes. "Bay" Middleton, famed sportsman, had a penchant for catching a coat by the tails and ripping it to the neck. One night, he thus accommodated Knollys, who was unconcerned. "I took the precaution, Sir,'' said...
...annual Labor Day races, Commodore Gen. Wood, clamping down the gas-lever of Miss Detroit VII, won the 150-mile international sweepstakes by a two-second margin over Cigarette Jr., of New York. Edsel Ford's boat, 999, burst into flames, sank beneath...
...rites. In a great ring formed by members of the Gorsedd‡, Edward P. was invested by Lady Treowen with a green robe, while the laurel-crowned Archdruid delivered himself of an address of welcome. The Prince was given the same title as that of his illustrious grandfather, Edward VII, when Prince of Wales, namely lonweth Dywysog...
...July 19, 1904, Edward VII laid the foundation stone of Liverpool Cathedral. Twenty years later, King George and Queen Mary attended the consecration ceremonies of the completed half of the Cathedral−the choir and two transepts...