Word: weeklies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world growing yearly more democratic, on the threshold of a great naval disarmament conference, new editions of the intransigeant annuals of blue bloods and battleships came last week from their respective publishers: the squat red Almanach de Gotha and long blue Jane's Fighting Ships. In recent years, editing the 167-year-old Almanach de Gotha, "genealogical, diplomatic and statistical annual," has been no mean task. Bound by tradition to list only the members of regal, princely and ducal families, the genteel editors have been obliged by a shortage of European aristocracy to fill their sedate pages with such...
...Last week the new Almanach bore as a frontispiece the round olive face of fat King Fuad I of Egypt. Backed by the government of Great Britain, to whose Sovereign he has been sending presents of pink preserved milk (TIME, Dec. 16), Frontispiece Fuad has an excellent chance of retaining his throne at least until the next issue of the Almanach...
Though the numbers of tractors and automobiles in France has increased more than 700% since 1913, figures published by the French Ministry of Agriculture last week showed no decrease in horseflesh in the same period. Over 3,000,000 horses worked French farms, pulled French carts last week, almost exactly the same number...
...Wiesbaden and at Bingen last week the last British troops shouldered their haversacks, marched out of Germany. Left behind was a lone Briton, one William Seeds, Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commissioner since 1928, who must represent the dignity and power of the British Empire in Germany until the last French and Belgian troops have quit the third Rhineland zone in June...
...Last week he was 80 years old. The National League of Former Army Officers gave him what approximated a state banquet in Berlin. Doors and windows were left open so that the public might gaze once more upon some of the oldtime heraldry of Imperial Germany. The hall blazed with medals and the bright colors of bygone dress uniforms ? the blue and red of the infantry, the blue and gold of the navy, the white, green, black, blue, yellow and pink of the cavalry. Feldmar-schall Mackensen, "Faithfullest of the Faithful," entered the hall amid a thunder of hocks...