Word: australia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amid a mild epidemic of measles and much general hilarity, the Duke and Duchess of York landed at Suva, Fiji Islands, last week from the cruiser Renown, on their way to Australia (TIME, Jan. 17 et seq.). The natives, their faces painted, their bodies caparisoned in grassy garments, received the King-Emperor's son with a tama, a prolonged, mournful and most honorable sound, a sound that begins as a grant, crescendoes to a bark, and ends with an exclamation resembling "WHOA...
...London fiery Scotch Laborite David Kirkwood rose up in the House of Commons, shouted: "The Yorks are on a joyride that costs the Exchequer probably a thousand pounds an hour ($4,860). . . . Why aren't they going to Australia on an ordinary steamer? . . . They are good riddance at the uttermost ends of the earth, and it wouldn't matter an iota if they never returned...
...Daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, who left her at Buckingham Palace when they set sail for Australia (TIME, Jan. 17 et seq.) there to open the new Federal Capital, Canberra...
...January were released last week, His Majesty's Government was discovered to have paid $18,500 toll to the Government of the U. S. in order that the Renown, a huge and potent warcraft, might pass through the Canal carrying the Duke and Duchess of York, sailing toward Australia (TIME...
...present, with Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York on the way to Australia (TIME, Jan. 17 et seq.), the relations of Edward of Wales with his sister were reported less cordial last week than is usual when his undoubtedly charming sister-in-law, the Duchess, is in London. Elizabeth, Duchess of York, is, by now, quietly well-known for her ability to get Edward into a good humor at family gatherings -especially toward Princess Mary and her husband, punctilious Lord Lascelles...