Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When sealed, the simple mahogany box lined with lead was placed upon a catafalque. Splendrously a mass was sung. Then reverent hands lowered the Queen Mother to her last rest in the Panteon de los Reyes. There many a sovereign of Spain?including Maria Christina's husband, Alfonso XII?already, lay, each in a black marble sarcophagus lettered in gold. Into a similar sarcophagus went Maria Christina Henrietta Desiree Felicite Réniére de Espana...
...Sovereign and the heir apparent must have the religion of the majority of our people [Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox...
...Pacts were signed with august pomp. As gold pens scratched and Ambassador bowed to Ambassador, the parable of "mother, father and children" seemed to evaporate and vanish. In the iridescent words of President-Elect Herbert Hoover, uttered at Buenos Aires (TIME, Dec. 31): "There are no young, independent sovereign nations, there are no older and younger brothers of the American continent. All are of the same age from a political and spiritual viewpoint, and the only difference between them is the different historic moment in their economic progress...
...Citizens, your Sovereign remains tranquil and confident that recent events have been greatly exaggerated abroad. On the eve of the season most essential to Monaco's prosperity, Prince Louis calls the people of Monaco, in the name of and by the affection they hold for their country to an appreciation of their sane and essential duties...
...statement to this startling effect and a masterly review of the Sovereign's entire illness was issued, last week, by the Royal physicians, and printed simultaneously in the Lancet and the British Medical Journal. The thirteen days from Dec. 2 to Dec. 15 were mentioned as the most critical; and His Majesty's condition of last week was described thus: "It will be apparent to medical men that not only the severity and the length of the infection but the exhaustion resulting therefrom must make progress slow and difficult...