Word: australian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duke and members of his suite by dancing the authentic Charleston. As a result, continued the despatch, numerous British tars on H. M. S. Renown observed closely the royal example, learned to mimic a dance with which they were previously unfamiliar, and are now to be seen teaching Australian ladies of the evening "The Royal Charleston...
...average Australian male earns $22 a week (as against $30 in the U. S.); and Australians spent over $500 each to put 329,883 men into the World War. Some 300,000 of these suffered casualties, over 50,000 being killed. But even with this vicious drain on her man power and exchequer, Australia has emerged from the War strong and quickening. year and a half ago she weathered a great shipping strike, and through all these growing pains and tribulations has resolutely pushed forward the great project of Canberra...
Just as the original 13 American United States grew so mutually jealous that in 1790 it was necessary to set aside the District of Columbia; so, in 1911, the Dominion Parliament of Australia created the Federal Territory of Canberra, because the six Australian states* could not abide that Melbourne, Victoria, should continue indefinitely Australia's capital...
...George V, King and Emperor, who inaugurated the Australian Commonwealth two decades and a half ago when he was Duke of York. It was Edward, Prince of Wales, who laid the cornerstone of the Capitol Building at Canberra six years ago. This month it is Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York, who has arrived with his Duchess in Australia after a tour of New Zealand (TIME, March 21, 28), to open the new Australian Parliament...
...Royal Highness, if the imperial schedule is not disturbed, will arrive at the Parliament Building on May 9 in one of the ten British Crossley cars at his official disposal in Australia. Before an assembled throng he will stand with Dame Nellie Melba, 68, "greatest Australian," who will lead a mighty singing of "God Save the King." Soon the Duke will step within, open Parliament, signalize that the world has a new Great Capital...