Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first foot each set down when they left the gangplank of the Empress of Australia at Quebec was the left foot. This ill omen was somewhat reflected in the reserved manner in which Quebec's French-speaking citizenry received them, causing New York Timesman John MacCormac to observe: "Canadian crowds are given to taking their pleasures silently, if not sadly." But the farther west Their Majesties went on their 26-day Canadian trip, the more English and enthusiasm they ran into, until, at Ottawa, the crowd went crazy and somebody actually slapped George on the back. At that point...
Fourth Day. George VI was born on Dec. 14, 1895, but a special Canadian birthday celebration was scheduled for May 20. In Ottawa's Parliament Square, to the tune of Pomp and Circumstance, Canada staged for the first time in its history a Trooping of the Colour to celebrate the King's "birthday," a celebration conducted since the 17th Century in London by the Guards Regiments. In Canada the troops honored were brigades of Canadian Foot from Ottawa and Grenadiers from Montreal in blue trousers, red coats and great bearskins...
...Callander, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe got his morning coat out of mothballs and the Dionne quintuplets practiced pretty curtsies in preparation for their trip to Toronto to meet King George and Queen Elizabeth. Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir (Author John Buchan) collected a library for Their Majesties, books on Canadian life, political works and novels, including a mystery called Blood Royal...
...city that has grown from 635,000 to an estimated 2,000,000 in six months. Generalissimo Chiang and his wife inspected the areas bombed in the earlier raids. The power plant was functioning again. A Harvard graduate named Theodore White went to his room in the Canadian-French mission school. The Associated Press correspondent stepped out of his office. Suddenly, out of the leaden sky, at 6:30, 27 Japanese bombers swept in on Chungking from the north...
...bomb hit 60 feet from the Associated Press building. One crashed through the roof of the British Embassy & Consulate. Another fell on the tennis court, killed 20 Chinese. The Canadian-French mission was demolished, the mangled body of a Chinese woman blown 200 yards through the window of Harvardman White's room. A bomb struck the Chungking power station. Chungking's radio went dead, the city's lights went out. The home of the British Vice Consul was struck three times, and fires surrounded the German Embassy & Consulate where, all night, the Consul General and his wife...