Word: keepers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Purse. Two months ago His Majesty asked Parliament to make provision for two hypothetical relatives. One was the bachelor King's future wife, to whom the Commons was last week asked to allot $200,000 a year out of the Privy Purse.* This will be kept by the Keeper of the Privy Purse until King Edward marries. The other was the hypothetical Queen's first-born son. Last week the Select Committee allotted the non-existent Prince of Wales an annual $125,000, to start accumulating at once. Thus, even if Edward VIII marries within the year...
...Warr and Viscount Cantelupe. The Commission's two potent drudges are Permanent Commissioner Charles Lancelot Stocks and Assistant Commissioner G. P. Best. They pay the Crown Lands monies to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who pays out the Civil List in turn to His Majesty's Keeper of the Privy Purse...
Captain January (Twentieth Century-Fox) is the story of a poor little foundling (Shirley Temple) washed up on the New England shore and adopted by a kindly lighthouse keeper (Guy Kibbee). Approaching her seventh birthday, the foundling is an extraordinary child. When she wakes she yodels a little song called Early Bird. When she visits the general store to buy brass polish, she pauses for a tap dance in the company of a proficient young villager (Buddy Ebsen). By this maneuver, she unhappily attracts the attention of the new & nasty truant officer (Sara Haden), and the plot begins to thicken...
...Shoot me first!" screamed Viscountess Saito darting forward and clapping her hand over the muzzle of the nearest machine gun. Instantly both trigger fingers clenched and the double roar of ZUG-ZUG-ZUG began. Bloody was the brave Viscountess' hand as her lord, the Admiral and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal crumpled and died under the murderous fusillade...
...suburban resorts, more mustards slew the Inspector General of Military Education, jovial General Jotaro Watanabe. They gravely wounded the Son of Heaven's Grand Chamberlain, doughty Admiral Kantaro Suzuki. They set fire to a beach hotel from which had escaped venerable Count Nobuaki Makino, for many years Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and one of the very few Japanese whom constant duty and association have brought humanly close to the Divine Emperor...