Word: alpenstock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later, on Table Mountain, the Queen's hat blew off. Clad in khaki slacks and armed with an alpenstock, the Royal Family's brisk old (77) host, Jan Christian Smuts (who had walked up the mountain while royalty rode), hastily interrupted a discourse in geology to take off after it. He returned with the hat in one hand, a graceful blue feather in the other. The King, whose powers of observation are apparently not much better than the average husband's, wanted to know where Smuts had found such a lovely feather. "It's from...