Word: royalities
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...golden coaches jolted past crowds which would have cried "Long live Mr. Ogden Haggerty Hammond!" if they had known his name. Behind trotted a squadron of the royal cavalry...
Seeing the University of London's plight, the Government lately offered it an option on eleven acres of good Bloomsbury soil adjacent to its University College hospital site, right behind the British Museum, hard by a number of learned headquarters such as the Royal...
...undated, but from internal evidence, it is clear that it belongs to the years 1795-98, the years just before Coleridge's great period. It consists of an amazing mass of jottings long and short, extracts from Coleridge's reading in travels, histories, the philosophical transactions of the Royal Society, books on optics, and so on, usually with no indication of where the references come from. It contains lists of subjects for poems and articles most of them never written, as well as personal memoranda...
When the numerous princes, dukes, and counts fied the empire at the time of the revolution, there was no rancor between them and the people. It is only natural, therefore, that the sentiments of a large part of the nation today oppose the confiscation of this royal property and favor its restoration...
...Germany of today is a poverty stricken nation trying to pay off the biggest indemnity of history. The former royal property includes besides castles land, and works of art, a long list of incomes, pensions, stocks and bonds, indemnities,--all worth about two billion gold marks. Do the already overtaxed people wish to pay back from the government treasury an amount three times as great as the Dawes loan? If in their present needy condition they are willing to do this, they show a loyalty to rank and property strangely incongruous in a socialist republic. Capitalists who dread Socialism will...