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Muffs It would be too bad if a lady about to be presented at Buckingham Palace should whip a pistol out of her muff. That Scotland Yard had put this idea into Queen Mary's head was London's impression last week when the Lord Chamberlain announced, ''Her Majesty desires that muffs be not worn...
Dive--Won by Buckingham (Y), 119.93 points; second, Bernard F. Merriam, II '36 (H); third, Christner (Y). (New dual record...
...brand new police box had been established. A special post office was put into operation to handle the Royal mail. Apart from this George V made no changes or modernizations in archaic Compton Place except to have installed his favorite seven-valve (tube) radio set, especially brought down from Buckingham Palace...
...Mediterranean would pass to Turkey." Just to be sure, three British cruisers and four destroyers were promptly sent to the British island of Cyprus. Greeks in Greece, who know that their deposed King George II is a close friend of King-Emperor George V and a frequent guest at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, suspected the worst...
Next night as Parliament caught its breath, Lord & Lady Bessborough held the "Drawing Room" equivalent in Canada to presentation at Court. Flanked by a galaxy of decorative generals, the Bessboroughs standing on a dais received the curtsies of elite Canadian females as do Their Majesties in Buckingham Palace. In nine other Canadian Provinces subjects similarly kowtow to the local Lieutenant Governor. Only in Ontario does brash, newdealing Premier Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn threaten: "Next time we are going to stop aping all this nonsense!" Next time for "Mitch" will come on Feb. 13 when he may or may not dare...