Word: buckingham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Victoria Station the Rumanian royalties were met by King George and Queen Mary. From the station to Buckingham palace the route was lined with brilliantly uniformed soldiers and thousands of cheering Britons. Both Kings were dressed in military uniforms and were seated in the first carriage. Queen Mary was, as usual, dressed severely, wore a silver-tissue brocade coat and the inevitable perching toque, and, as usual, she looked every inch a Queen. Queen Marie wore a wine-red fur-trimmed cloak and a large hat well down upon her head...
Then came a State banquet given in Buckingham Palace. Two thousand guests were present. It was the first ball to be given in many years. Dancing was strictly a la Victorienne, King George and Queen Mary having displayed their antipathy for modern dancing by banning the fox trot and other neo-terpsichorean frills. The four Sovereigns opened the ball by leading in the formal quadrille d'honneur which has opened royal balls since the days of George III. The remainder of the evening was then filled with waltzes, polkas and the like. According to official report there...
...Freshman four, stroked by S. A. Buckingham '27, passed the first Browne and Nichols four-oared shell at the three-quarters mile mark and finished the mile and the race two lengths ahead of the preparatory boys, yesterday afternoon in the Basin...
...Freshman four-oared crew: stroke, S. A. Buckingham; 3, C. E. Bohlen; 2, W. B. Hutchinson; bow, R. J. Walsh...
First Freshman Four--Stroke, S. A. Buckingham; 3, R. B. Greenman; 2, N. B. Hutchinson Jr.; bow, R. S. Riley Jr.; cox., H. C. Humphrey...