Besceptered

Well, the procession moved on, and, as I got under the canopy, berobed, bemitred, besceptered, and bespurred, I caught a glimpse of Miss Fellows, the herb-woman, who, with six devilish handsome girls, were strewing rosemary and tansy on the blue broadcloth from Manchester;

President [Adolphe] Thiers slipped and fell on the Paris pavement the other day. The fall of a French ruler is a rather frequent occurrence, but Thiers has not slipped much since he ascended the republican throne. In falling, moreover, he differed widely from his becrowned and besceptered predecessors: he got up again.

It taxes the imagination to associate the “Old Hickory”—that mighty pioneer of democracy who could never fight his enemies hard enough or do too much for his friends—with a becrowned and besceptered personality, with a “your majesty,” in short: but a recent writer, evidently exceptionally well informed, compels us to conclude that, temperamentally, at least, King Leopold and Andrew Jackson are “two of a kind.”

In each of the countries so deeply wronged by a royalty proclaiming divine right, there abides hope among the rulers cast out, of once more wearing the purple and holding power in besceptered hands.

The article was illustrated by an entrancing picture of a queen on her throne, becrowned, besceptered, bejeweled.

With “King Football” besceptered and enthroned as the reigning monach^([sic]) in the dynasty of fall sports, the 1933 University of Cincinnati gridiron edition has been taking form during recent scrimmages in preparation for the stiff nine-game program, which is inaugurated with Rio Grande at Nippert Stadium, next Saturday night.

Why don’t the papers point out that Willkie is challenging Mr. Roosevelt, the candidate, not President Roosevelt, besceptered in gold and invested in purple?

After our wearisome, yet zestful, mountain-climb perhaps we shall find a besceptered Truth—absolute, majestic, and immortal, reclining like a Zeus on an Olympus ruling the reality of things.