Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armies on the Western Front (1914-15) and brother-in-law of Queen Elena of Italy, who lay in a dying condition last week at Nice; and 2) The Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovitch, grandson-in-law of British Queen Victoria, who continues to proclaim himself "Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias," in succession to his assassinated cousin Tsar Nicholas II. & Last...
...Kings of Arms, the six Heralds and the four Pursuivants. Should Death come it would be the awesome duty of these 13 personages to make oral proclamation, some three days after the event*, from the Friary Court balcony of St. James's Palace; and thereafter and furthermore to proclaim the accession of the new Sovereign, proclaim it again at Charing Cross, carry tidings to the Lord Mayor of London, and repeat the proclamation yet again in the Close, adjoining Chancery Lane, and finally at the Royal exchange, whereupon simultaneous salutes would boom from St. James's Park...
...learned last week who is the very best mother in all Rumania. They were told by the Dowager Queen Marie-herself the mother of three Rumanian princesses, Princess Ileana, ex-Queen Elizabeth of Greece and Queen Marie of Jugoslavia. So modest is Dowager Queen Marie that she did not proclaim herself "Best Mother" as some catty enemies thought she would. Instead a painstaking search has been carried on by Her Majesty for some weeks, with a view to bestowing a large gold medal on Rumania's very best mother. Last week the 32-year-old mother of a bonny...
...diversions. The youngest generations wait for the last of the yearly series to come into their own. To be sure, they seize upon such opportunities as the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving, with sufficient alacrity, but their parents always dominate the scene with the dignity of "We do solemnly proclaim edicts and displays of eloquence that serve to remind forgetful citizens of what a capable fellow their mayor really...
...hard to say just wherein the picture falls down, it comes so close to being truly excellent. Perhaps more than in anything else the fault is in tendency for the story to moralize, to proclaim too blatantly the some-what shopworn "I still believe in you" motif. Far be it from this reviewer to simply that that is not a good and even often necessary chord, but nevertheless it has always had the effect on him of inducing a slight shudder when it is blared forth upon the brasses...