Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...received by His Majesty last week spread in restricted Mayfair circles an impression that the King, after he is crowned in May 1937, will set out on a tour of the Empire extending clear around the calendar to spring of 1938. This would include a Coronation Durbar at New Delhi in the winter of 1937-38, and this week officials in Whitehall were appalled by the prospect that Mrs. Simpson is apparently to accompany the King, married or unmarried...
...fortunately occurred in English history, a Scotsman, Victor Alexander John Hope, Marquess of Linlithgow, was making good last week in one of the Empire's greatest jobs, that of Viceroy & Governor General of India. This tall, strongly-built and stanch lowlander arrived at the Viceregal Capital of New Delhi last spring with the especial confidence of Britons. Here was no glittering snob of a Lord Curzon, no "friend" of Mahatma Gandhi like Lord Halifax, and above all no amateur who would have to study India from tne isolation of his golden Throne and might begin to understand it just...
...Children, I Speak to You!" At 5:30 p.m. the day after he arrived in India the cream & gold Viceregal Train brought Lord Linlithgow to New Delhi. Out stepped the tallest Viceroy of India ever, with his 6-foot Marchioness and their three young and pretty daughters, Lady Anne, Lady Joan and Lady Doreen Hope. With cannon thundering the 31 guns of the Viceregal salute, the Hopes of India drove off in a carriage drawn by six prancing bays, guarded before and behind by cavalry & the Viceroy's Body Guard, their tunics eddying in glittering waves of scarlet...
Cried younger Brother Felix Piseck at Delhi: "I'm the last man in this crowd who wants a strike, but if we can't get rid of the classified plan any other way, we must keep our milk at home." There was hearty applause...
...Delhi, India, a snake attempted to board a ferryboat, caused frightened passengers to dash to the other side, the boat to capsize, 50 persons to drown...