Word: durbars
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...strike the Imperial note as resoundingly as possible, the new Empress of Britain will be painted in the same colors as the old Medina, which in 1911 carried George V and Queen Mary to India for their Durbar, namely white with a band of royal blue. Proudly the Canadian Pacific Line will announce their new ship as the largest on the St. Lawrence route to Europe. A brand new mammoth dock awaits her at Quebec...
...theatre, constructed at a cost of $450,000, is to be the showplace of the Triangle Club (most famed college musical comedy organization), founded in 1893 by Author Booth Tarkington. Annually the club produces and takes on tour a homemade theatrical durbar, written, musicalized and acted by undergraduates fortunate enough to gain club membership. The largest individual donation ($250,000) to the theatre, which rises like a Norman barn in front of the railroad station, came from Thomas Nesbitt McCarter, '88, president of Public Service Corp. of New Jersey. No Triangle mummer himself, the building bears his name...
...Taffy Lewis," interrupted a somewhat belligerent Welshman, pushing into the room. "No good staying here with the dead. I was a soldier in India at His Majesty's Durbar. I'll show Your Highness misery, with your permission, as much as ever Old Frank could...
...property. The children by his first wife (Mary, Cynthia, Alexandra) having benefited "by the wills of their grandfather and grandmother, Mr. and Mrs. Leiter," were left "laces, fans, dresses, furs and personal belongings of their mother with the exception of the peacock dress* which she wore at the Delhi Durbar...
...dress created a tremendous sensation at the Durbar. It was willed to the Kedleston estate...