Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right people have now been golden-framed. Last week Buckingham Palace was a busy hive of active preparation for the gorgeous, solemn Coronation scheduled for May 12. The King had regular fittings of his various Crowns and Coronation garments, as did the Queen. Tightly boarded up already is Westminster Abbey and inside carpenters thwacked furiously, erecting that ominous-sounding platform, "The Scaffold," on which Their Majesties are joyously to be crowned...
...Duce's press thundered that Italy's Royal House of Savoy is justly renowned for the wisdom of Vittorio Emanuele III, added that His Majesty "cannot make other than the correct choice" in deciding whether or not to send Italian Crown Prince Umberto to sit in Westminster Abbey with a black-faced Ethiopian...
...Manhattan agents find their best, highest-priced Coronation Procession seats sold out, or nearly. Thus Raymond Whitcomb, who have the grandstand adjoining Westminster Abbey, have sold all the top-price seats they offered at $262.50 each, have plenty left at down to $94.50 each, their cheapest. Thomas Cook & Son have the stand of 4,000 seats near Hyde Park Corner and throw in with one of these seats a minimum rate inside cabin on the Kimgsholm for $395 roundtrip. This definitely cheap inclusive rate covers dinner, breakfast and bus transport between the ship in the Thames and a point within...
...most famed train, The Flying Scotsman, halted to take them aboard, sped them to honeymoon on the estate of his mother, a Maxwell. Short is their Scottish holiday, for conducting the Coronation of George VI is an hereditary duty which the Duke of Norfolk must discharge, and Westminster Abbey has already been closed for preparations and rehearsals...
...Grady's taste and when the time comes to pick a new District Attorney, Moreno is cashiered. His fighting failure brings him to the attention of the Governor, who appoints him special investigator of some cases involving illegal stock promotion. Moreno pursues his investigation even though his girl Abbey (Florence Rice) asks him not to. At a public hearing on the financing of a suspicious gold-mine invention, Moreno's trick with a tomato and a magnet ruins Abbey's family fortune, but she loves him anyway...