Word: gartered
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...Snakes, contrary to popular supposition, have good vision. Those tested included garter snakes, king snakes, ribbon snakes and rattlesnakes. They see worst just before shedding their skins, best just after shedding, because the snake's cornea grows opaque as shedding time nears and is sloughed off with the skin...
...from the officers of the 1st The Royal Dragoons, whose honorary colonel he was till the War.* The other was from relatives who 22 years ago scorned him as unworthy of chivalry by having his banner, surcoat, helmet and sword removed from the chapel of the Order of the Garter at Windsor. The text of this message was not revealed but its signature was announced with pride: "Bertie, May, and Elizabeth" (i. e., George VI, Queen Mother Mary, and Queen Elizabeth...
Tall, reedy, gentle, devoutly religious and pro-German is Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Viscount Halifax of Monk Bretton in the West Riding of York, Baron Irwin of Kirby Underdale York, Knight of the Garter, onetime Viceroy of India (TIME, May u, 1931, et ante), today Lord President of the Council and Government Leader in the House of Lords. In London, the abrupt decision of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that Lord Halifax should go to visit Adolf Hitler last week came more & more to be regarded as a "humiliation" to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who is not pro-German...
...distress has been caused to the Duke, I greatly regret it," winced the Garter King of Arms, when confronted by newshawks. "I recollect that the Duke [when King] did say something to the effect that it was his mother's wish that the funeral should be concluded in a week to avoid prolonged distress to the Royal Family. ... I meant no sort of disrespect to the Duke of Windsor...
...disgrace with Their Majesties, the Garter King of Arms next day performed his usual functions in Buckingham Palace at the third and last Court of the present London season. For the first time at one of these Courts, bonny and buxom Queen Elizabeth wore the lower part of her new State Crown placed on her head at the Coronation (TIME, May 24). This blazed with the 106-carat Kohinoor diamond once in the State Crown of Queen Mary who, not present at last week's Court, recently appeared wearing a mortarboard when she graciously laid at Oxford the cornerstone...