Word: crumpet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their Majesties sipped tea, last week, in crumpet passing proximity to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford. The chat waxed cordial and lasted for two hours. It took place neither at punctilious Buckingham Palace nor in the spacious hotel suite of Henry Ford (TIME, April 16). Royalty & Fords met before the cozy country hearth of famed Viscountess Astor at Cliveden, 20 miles from London. She, vivacious, hospitable, bred in Virginia, but now a British peeress and M. P., seemed the ideal international hostess. Gossip told that the conversation of Her Majesty and Mrs. Ford was at all times stately, that...
...great tact, courage and obstinacy could have consummated this expedition. Ahmed Hassanein was awarded the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. In this book, which is purged of science, he writes of long fatigues and desperate adventure like a University Fellow .discussing such fantasies over the afternoon crumpet, yet this reticence gives the tale an objective ambiguity, as if the type of all desert wanderers, the very ghost of the Golden Horde, rode with Hassanein's thin company along the last frontiers of nomadism. The volume is adorned with many excellent photographs, frontispieced with one of the author...