Word: elena
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grey-green and silver dress uniform of a field marshal. From his hat sprouted a white aigrette, round his neck hung the flashing gold chain of the Collar of the Annunziata, on his breast blazed medals. Towering a good head and shoulders above him stood Queen Elena...
Albert of Belgium went to Italy. Purpose: to visit Vittorio-Emanuele and Queen Elena. Rumored: that Princess Marie-Jose of Belgium (third child) and Crown Prince Umberto of Italy (just turned 25) are to be married; that Pius XI will perform the ceremony; that the couple will live in a royal palace at Florence...
...sagas seldom fail to be interesting, and this account of last summer's ocean race to Spain is no exception to the rule. All the details of the trip over in the winning schooner, the "Elena," a boat only a little more than 100 feet long over all, are told by the daughter of the "Skipper" and owner...
This deficiency is in the one field in which a yachtsman would least expect it. The chapter on the actual sailing across the Atlantic relates too little of the actual competition of the race. One is curious to know why for instance the "Elena" made what appears to be a "faux pas" in strategy by her sudden shift of course the fifth day out from the Ambrose lightship. The actual racing tactics of the competitors receive very little description, yet this is supposed to be a kind of official record of the race...
...Italy the royal family decreed a fortnight period of mourning to honor Nicholas Nicholaievitch, who was brother-in-law of Queen Elena...