Word: batman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unescorted by the high command and the press, but only by an aide and a batman, another member of Britain's ruling family last week toured the British front: H. R. H. Prince Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Major General (formerly Field Marshal) the Duke of Windsor, 45. He traveled (and slept) in a caravan consisting of a trailer towed by a small coupe. Unlike his brother and successor on the throne, who was kept well back and whose trail he did not cross, he visited the foremost zones. His mission: to inquire into and report...
...Mollisons Their Majesties gave a letter to be delivered to their third son, Henry, Duke of Gloucester, in Melbourne, halfway around the world. Race. A hundred years ago this month a tough little band of Tasmanian pioneers rowed up the Yarra River, picked a spot which their leader, John Batman, decided would be "a good place for a village." John Batman's "village" became the city of Melbourne (pop. 1,000,000), which, with the State of Victoria, is this year celebrating its centennial...
...like Garbo, Mrs. Paradine was of humble Scandinavian birth, had once worked in a barber shop. So there had been no insuperable barrier between her and her husband's valet, handsome William Marsh. Everything might have gone along smoothly, since Colonel Paradine was blind, if Marsh, his Wartime batman, had not been so fanatically loyal...