Word: vii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came to that quality and estate when he was four days short of 41. (His father, the greatly esteemed George V, was 44 when his father, Edward VII, died, and Edward was 59 when Victoria withered away.) Most of the blood in his veins was the German blood of the Hanovers, mixed with the English Tudors and Scotch Stuarts. His house had owned the English name of Windsor only 19 years. But on Dec. 10, 1936, when he stuttered a little and took up the burden of his brother, the slow mutation of the British way had made...
...chief spur toward the New World Symphony. Burleigh won his St. George's post against 59 other applicants, all white. The deciding vote was cast by the church's senior warden, J. P. Morgan the elder. Morgan later arranged to have Burleigh sing before Edward VII of Britain. When the financier died, Burleigh fulfilled his last request by singing Calvary at his funeral...
...original of a Toulouse-Lautrec watercolor, her artistry was one of the risqué features of Paris of the '90s. In low neck and long black gloves she ranged from café songs to medieval ballads. She was received in England by Composer Sir Arthur Sullivan at Edward VII's request; in 1932 was dubbed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor...
...thinking it bordered on sacrilege for anyone else but Roosevelt to fill this place. It was the same feeling I would have had as a boy in Jamaica, picturing anyone else living in Buckingham Palace but King Edward VII...
Boulogne Beginnings. Jimmy's ancestors were old-fashioned scholars. In the Mission School of Western Learning at Pao-ning, he studied science, geography, history, English and Christianity. After his Hong-Kong Edward VII Scholarship blew up because he was not a British subject, Jimmy was reduced to going to Yale ('18) and Princeton (M.A. '20). After graduating from Yale he went to France for the Y.M.C.A., worked in a Boulogne canteen for 5,000 coolies of a military labor battalion. These workers kept Jimmy busy writing their letters home, reading newspapers to them...