Word: australia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Britons are justly proud of four young princes who can perform so monotonous a ritual with such constant enthusiasm and éclat. When the Duke of York recently returned from Australia, for example, his bachelor brothers, Edward of Wales, Prince Henry and Prince George were not only on the dock to meet him (see cover), but they carried swords three feet long and wore uniforms in shrewdly calculated contrast...
...World popularity of the four Windsor boys. Even when only two of them are available for a state function they manage admirably to perform their duty to the public. Thus at Quebec last week, thousands of Canadians were joyous as there descended from the S. S. Empress of Australia: 1) His Royal Highness, Edward of Wales, clad Scottishly in the uniform of a Colonel of the Seaforth Highlanders; and 2) His Royal Highness, Prince George Alexander Edmund, wearing the smart full-dress of a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy...
Soon Mr. Baldwin began to chat: "It is 37 years since I was here before. Then I did not come on a magnificent ship such as the Empress of Australia, but on the old Alaska...
...Empress of Australia churned steadily across the Atlantic, last week carrying to Quebec T.H.R. Edward of Wales and his youngest brother Prince George, together with Premier & Mrs. Stanley Baldwin and a joint retinue...
...handsome, slippery little dog named Jason, is brought back from 26 years of supposed death for no better purpose than to furnish comic relief to the sagging last third of the book. At the end he is killed off, by a drunken fall on his return trip to Australia, where he has an informal second wife and family...