Word: coldstreams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Garden Opera season by leasing a box, though he attended no operas up to last week. May 16 saw privately his first stage performance since he came to the Throne, the last act of Storm In a Teacup presented in the home of Lady Cunard. May 20 inspected the Coldstream Guards at Aldershot, shouting in at the mess hall door "Any complaints?" May 25 inspected the Queen Mary prior to her maiden voyage, flying from his snuggery, Fort Belvedere at Sunningdale, to Southampton and back to Sunningdale, while Queen Mary went by train. May 28 proclamation that His Majesty will...
...Windsor Castle Edward VIII last week inspected the Coldstream Guards. Visiting the barracks he found a Sergeant Jenkins, lately transferred from the Welsh Guards. Sergeant Jenkins was the proud possessor of a photograph of the finish of a regimental foot race which a drummer-boy named Davis was winning, with Edward of Wales running second and Sergeant Jenkins a close third...
...Butt, 62, onetime milkmaid who became Great Britain's most popular contralto and a Dame Commander of the British Empire; after a long illness; in Oxford, England. Six feet, three inches tall and equipped with a voice so powerful that neither Albert Hall's organ nor the Coldstream Guards could drown her notes,, she was a favorite with royalty, performing many times before Queen Victoria, Edward VII, George...
...only horse cavalry but some of the Empire's choicest and most picturesque infantrymen were also ordered mechanized, including a battalion each from the famed Coldstream Guards, the Grenadier Guards, the Scots Guards, the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders and the Prince of Wales's Own West Yorkshire Regiment...
...hair, tormenting their three chaperones. At the Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School at Pemberlea, Vancouver Island, the 41 obstreperous youngsters and the 300 who are to follow them will be gently but firmly reined in by the principal, Major Maurice Francis Trew, late of His Majesty's Coldstream Guards...