Word: buckingham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Came two grave silk-hatted mummers who marched with thoroughgoing dignity. Impersonating not only the Prince but the entire Royal Family, they quitted the station and seated themselves in two wagons representing the imperial landaus. Ceremoniously they were driven to Buckingham Palace by exactly the same route which the royal party was to follow next...
Stepping aboard his cruiser, The Repulse, the Prince received official farewells from President de Alvear. As lie steamed toward Buckingham-on-Thames, rumors again circulated. This time the story went that London awaits him as "The World's Greatest Commercial Traveler," expects him to tell British business men how to capture South American markets...
...series of five public lectures on astronomical subjects will be given this fall at the College Observatory, it has been announced. The Observatory, with entrances on Concord Avenue opposite Buckingham Street and on Garden Street opposite Linnaean Street, will be open, the announcement states, on the dates of the lectures from 7.30 in the evening until 9 o'clock. A short non-technical talk will be preceded, when the weather permits, by telescope observation of celestial objects. Exhibits showing the work of the Observatory will be explained by members of the staff...
...Life's Battles, a chatty autobiography by Will Thorne, horney-handed M. P. of the Labor Party, was published in London last week. Mr. Thorne treats his reminiscences like fine liqueurs, slowly sipped. He remembers how he, frowsily dressed astounded a taxi-driver by directing: "Buckingham Palace"; how he said to Lord Stamfordham (the King's Secretary) : "I have been led to understand one has to do a lot of bowing and scraping;" how Lord Stamfordham told him he was mistaken; how his preconception of the King was indeed mistaken...
Bright and early next morning the French Foreign Minister, obedient to the wishes of King George, paid a visit to Buckingham Palace. For 40 minutes he conversed with the British Sovereign and when, at the end of that time, he emerged between the high iron gates of the Palace, his chin and cheeks cleanly shaved, a wide smile lit his sallow countenance. From then on, everybody took it as a matter of course that his visit was bound to be successful...