Word: iii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five hundred and eighty years ago there was recorded in the household account book of Elizabeth, Countess of Ulster, the wife of Edward III's third son, the purchase for a lad named Geoffrey Chaucer of one paltock, a pair of red and black breeches, and a pair of shoes. Thus did the Father of English Poetry, as he has been heroically emblazoned for schoolboys of the world, enter history. Adorned in his new garments, the youth accompanied the retinue of the pretty countess as she moved in medieval splendor between the great houses of England. He attended court festivities...
Belgians opened their newspapers one morning last week to read that handsome King Leopold III and his brother Prince Charles would next day lead a pilgrimage of many thousands to Marche-les-Dames where King Albert three years ago fell to his death from a mountain (TIME, Feb. 26, 1934), that the widowed Queen Mother Elisabeth would visit the spot after the pilgrims had gone. Troops, war veterans, civilian organizations were to be drawn up in solemn silence while King Leopold reviewed them...
...later in 8,000-ft. high Addis Ababa, the birth of a son to Italy's Crown Prince (TIME, Feb. 22) brought out the Viceroy and his glittering entourage, accompanied by Ethiopia's native Archbishop or Abuna who long ago turned from Haile Selassie to Vittorio Emanuele III. Just as gifts were being handed to the populace, up from the milling, shouting, scrambling mob flew a flock of hand grenades left over from the War. Ethiopia's Archbishop in his flowing robes shared in the worst of the blast, received ghastly wounds. General Aurelio Liotta, Chief...
Sued. Henry Huddleston Rogers III, 31, grandson of one of the founders of Standard Oil; for $70,000 damages; by his secretary, Edward Benson, who claimed that Rogers had walloped him on the head, inflicting a brain concussion, when he asked why he was being fired; in Manhattan...
...racquets might seem to offer a choice field for any able-bodied young man who wanted the distinction of championship at some well-publicized and patrician indoor sport. Last week, this point of view appeared to be substantiated when a wiry, darkhaired young Manhattan stockbroker named Robert Grant III, in his first season of serious racquets competition, won the U. S. amateur championship in New York's Racquets & Tennis Club after playing four tournament matches in the course of which he lost only one game...