Word: buckingham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visit England" because I haven't got the price. Just built a house with what I had and besides I'd rather see Hollywood before Buckingham Palace which you can't get in, I understand. If more Americans would stay home and spend their money with their fellow countrymen, we would not have income tax to worry about...
...four royal nurses?Purdie (English), Gordon (Scotch), Black (Irish) and Davies (Welsh)?were paid weekly from five to eight pounds apiece ($24-$38), and will receive from His Majesty personally "a substantial gift" according to an announcement last week at Buckingham Palace. About £3,000 ($14,580) was spent to install the special anti-fog machinery which purified the air in George V's bed- room (TIME, Dec. 17), and was considered indispensable in saving his life. To set up a special pharmacy in the Palace and keep it staffed day and night with the most expert drug...
...debutantes and others who will don white gloves, pin three feathers in their hair and go to Buckingham Palace this Spring, will make their bows to Queen Mary alone, the Lord Chamberlain announced. There will be but one throne in the throne room at this year's formal courts. The Prince of Wales will lead his mother to the dais and then take his place in the family circle, below the dais and to one side...
...Corporal Puddifoot of the St. John's Ambulance Brigade displayed a gleaming pair of gold cuff links last week, a present from Queen Mary. For Corporal Puddifoot was one of the four stretcher-bearers who bore the King-Emperor from Buckingham Palace to the motor ambulance which carried him to Bognor. Last week the King's Equerry, Col. Arthur Erskine, in behalf of the Queen, handed each of the four a pair of massive gold links, each large enough to bear the inscription: "A Memento of Her Majesty's Appreciation of Your Services...
...author (Food for the Fed-Up, The Warrior, The Woman and the Christ), rector of St. Edmund's, London; of influenza; in Liverpool. "Woodbine Willie" personally gave away 8,750,000 Woodbine cigarets to soldiers. As one of 15 Court Chaplains he preached to King George V at Buckingham Palace. He slept there, and under hedges with tramps. Visiting the U. S. often, he delivered his tirades against social conditions. The most famed "Woodbine Willie" stories tells of his interruption of an English wire-cutting party near German trenches on a murky night...