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...conversion was most opportune. It materially aided Ferdinand in securing his recognition by Russia, Turkey and the Powers as "Prince of Bulgaria." Up to that time, although Ferdinand was a nephew of Albert, Prince Consort of Victoria, and a grandson of King Louis Philippe, and had been called to the Bulgarian throne by the Grand Sobranye of Bulgaria on the abdication of Prince Alexander in 1886, he was freely styled "usurper" by his enemies...
...royal robes and things, yards upon yards of them, with his exceedingly slim legs protruding from their midst. There have not been lacking people to insinuate that the satire in the portrait was intentional. Whether or not Mr. Simms has been smiling discreetly at this regal figure whose consort out-tops him by inches, the fact remains that the picture gives the general effect of "much cry and little wool...
...ship owners of the British Commonwealth are seeing snakes- not the pink snakes which consort with orange toads, purple salamanders and magenta tarantulas-but sea snakes with long green bodies, gliding through great billows of discontent with only their heads sticking out-heads with red hoods, with the flittering tongue of Trotzky and the penetrating eyes of Lenin...
Going. In Battle Harbor, Labrador, a place of gray rock domes, fretted shoreline, low islands: and a horizon studded with icebergs, the Bowdoin, flagship of Explorer Donald B. MacMillan's Polar expedition, lay at anchor waiting for her consort, the Peary. When the latter turned up, she explained that a fierce storm near the Strait of Belle Isle had forced her to heave to for fear of damage to the expedition's three Navy planes which she carried lashed to her decks. Board screens had been erected against the hammering seas and no damage was done...
...seasons. Last week, the King and Queen, the Duke and Duchess of York, Prince Henry, Princess Mary and her husband, Viscount Lascelles; Prince and Princess Arthur of Connaught, Lady Patricia Ramsay (former Princess "Pat"), the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, onetime (1908-10) King Manoel of Portugal and his consort drove in semi-state from Windsor Castle to the race course. Down the turf, cheers thundering on either side, the royal party were driven in open carriages with postillions and outriders in scarlet and gold to the royal enclosure...