Word: vii
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sandringham, in Norfolk, near The Wash, the King's farmers clucked to the King's horses and turned the King's sod as they and their fathers did for George V and his father, Edward VII. The King was born in York Cottage, Sandringham, and his father died there...
...Brett. The Honorable Dorothy Brett was born in London (1891), daughter of Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount Esher, friend and adviser of Britain's shrewd, sporty King Edward VII. Dorothy studied art at London's Slade School. In her art-student days she met Novelist D. H. Lawrence, was so impressed by him that she followed him to Taos. After Lawrence's death, in 1933. Dorothy Brett wrote Lawrence and Brett, a minor literary sensation...
Again, before Churchill agreed to Article VII of the 1942 Lend-Lease agreement (which called for an end to trade discrimination and reduction of tariff barriers), he obtained from Mr. Roosevelt specific assurance that the text "no more committed [Britain] to the abolition of imperial preference than the American Government was committed to the abolition of their protective tariffs...
...gras direct from Strasbourg. The Chambord had been commended by Columnist Lucius Beebe as a nice little place to get a $35 dinner for two without wine. Now OPA inspectors found that the Chambord was getting $15 for a $12 pheasant dinner (Le Coq Faisan en Belle Vue Edward VII, for two). The management hastily dropped Le Coq, substituted a $10 veal chop...
...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...