Word: vii
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since Thursday of last week a new Patriarch has sat on Phanar's throne. He is Gregory VII...
...Land of Islam. So far so good. The author goes farther afield and animadverts upon "Germany in Islam," British policy toward Turkey, Russia and Turkey. In particular does he berate the Anglo-Russian treaty of 1907 which paved the way for completion of the Triple Entente by King Edward VII with the Tsar of Russia at Reval in 1908. Although much that is said is entirely pertinent and substantially correct, the reasoning is seemingly paralogical. Mr. Price's vision is circumscribed by Islam, the needs and problems of the West find no place in his dogmas; in the sphere...
...Play is now given in an open-air Renaissance amphitheatre on a stage similar to the Elizabethan. It begins early on Sunday morning after the players have attended High Mass. It lasts eight hours. The first part (Act I to Act VII) carries the story of Christ's last week from His entry into Jerusalem to His vigil in the Garden of Gethsemane where He prayed: "Father, if Thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless, not my will, but Thine, be done." After an interval for lunch, the second part (Act VIII to Act XIV) continues...
Died. Sir Frederick Treves, 70, Surgeon Extraordinary to Queen Victoria in the last year of her life, at Lausanne, Switzerland, of peritonitis. In 1902, he operated on King Edward VII...
...years since Princess Alexandra, daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark, came to England for her marriage to King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales. It can be safely said that during all these years the Queen Mother has endeared herself to the whole British people throughout the Commonwealth. Her life is spent very quietly between Sandringham Palace, purchased by Edward VII in 1861, and Marlborough House, her London residence. She has never gone out of mourning for King Edward who died...