Word: kings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courts also. While this is admittedly not a vital matter, still it will afford a great deal of satisfaction to tennis fans who have been arguing for a long time as to the relative merits of various professional and amateur players. Those who champion the cause of Karel Kozeluh, king of the professional world, will have an opportunity to see if their choice really is better than Henri Cochet, wizard of the amateur courts, or if, as many will loudly protest, the latter is in a class by himself...
...entire program has not been announced; however among Professor Copeland's readings will be "Desire", by James Stephens, author of "The Crock of Gold", and the tournament scene from "A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court", by Mark Twain...
...Three Kings and three Queens made a full house in Sandringham, Norfolk, last week when King Haakon & Queen Maud of Norway, King Christian & Queen Alexandrine of Denmark sat down to take pink milk with King George & Queen Mary of Britain...
...pink milk was a thoughtful gift from still another monarch, round King Fuad of Egypt. Ever since his illness, George of Britain has been peckish at his food. In recent weeks royal doctors have asked for special recipes and dishes to tempt the royal appetite. In Cairo, amiable King Fuad remembered that when he suffered from lassitude and loss of appetite, nothing was quite so good as a long cool glass of bright pink "preserved milk," specially prepared by his Egyptian chef. Obligingly he sent a case to George V. Britain's royal chef, M. Cedard, utilized the pink...
...national militia of boys and girls between the ages of seven and 20 years"-that was what Dictator-King Alexander of Jugoslavia created last week by a pen-scratch. In Italy a similar militia, for boys only, called Balilla* has been formed by the inventor of this apt scheme for bending twigs of youth, Signor Benito Mussolini. In Belgrade Dictator-King Alexander christened his balilla "The Hawks of Jugoslavia," dubbed his bonny six-year-old eldest son, Crown Prince Peter, "The Eternal Chief of Hawks...