Word: edvardus
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...latest wartime wildcatter is H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor. Last week on his E.P. (stands for Edvardus Princeps) ranch, 65 miles southwest of Calgary, a rotary drill was gouging the earth. The Duke had joined the search for the elusive oil pool under Alberta...
...play, although George Bernard Shaw hastily wrote last week for William Randolph Hearst a strongly pro-Mrs. Simpson and pro-Edward VIII playlet in which he flung at Prime Minister Baldwin the ultimate Irish insult of tagging him "Prime Minister Goldwyn." But the drama the world wanted to see, Edvardus Rex, was acting and writing itself hour by hour as the amazing facts erupted. They formed not a stately royal play such as Laurence Housman's Victoria Regina* but a breathless cinema of swift pace and jazz tempo...
...youngest son of Queen Mary, who was nicknamed by playfellows at school as "The Scent Bottle." In last week's unreeling of an Empire crisis, sleek, scented Kent was most of the time an orchidaceous extra waiting on the lot while British bigwigs performed the stellar roles in Edvardus Rex. Scenes from this cinema of official facts and carefully checked dispatches...
Mountains of George V stamps would have to be destroyed, experts said, if Edward VIII stamps of the same denominations were issued now. But work began at once changing the G. R. (Georgius Rex) on 9,000 mail vans to E. R. (Edvardus Rex). So desultory is this job that during the 26 years of George V's reign not all the postal vans were equipped to correspond with his name, and last week many still marked E. R. for the Seventh Edward were ordered left as they are for the Eighth. George V, when the Royal Mint...
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