Word: kissing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joyously, then, Dowager Queen Marie returned from the Passion Play at Oberammergau last week to Bucharest. As her train drew in, but before it stopped, Her Majesty leaped from the step of her salon car as lightly as a girl, rushed at King Carol who tried to take and kiss her hand, swept him into her arms, hugged and kissed him thrice. With a gay skip Crown Prince (previously King) Mihai rushed at "Granny''! Prince Nicholas kissed his mother's hand. So did all the other great dignitaries present except one. He, an imposingly robed and snowy-haired...
...Said Carol of Nicholas last week: "He is more than a brother! ... He hourly does me splendid service." Nicholas told reporters that during his brother's exile they used an affectionate telegraphic code in which "Mary" stood for Carol. Without translating it Nicholas quoted one code message: "TELL TITKUS KISS FROM SOPHIE...
Said Author Sir James Matthew Barrie (Auld Licht Idylls, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, A Kiss for Cinderella) upon being made a Freeman of his native Kirriemuir which he immortalized as "Thrums" in A Window in Thrums (1889): "I remember once being called upon in America to speak to a women's college containing 900 girls, and I said I could not, but if they would come outside one at a time I would make 900 speeches to them...
...that matter does her neighbor the Archduchess Augusta. It is no secret that members of the Corps Diplomatique, including the U. S. Minister, attend these "courts," bow with deepest consideration to their archducal hostess, and, approaching the large, thronelike-chair on which the Archduchess (either Isabella or Augusta) sits, kiss the back of her white-gloved right hand. The left hand is not gloved, a reminder that the sole purpose of the right glove is to protect Imperial Habsburg flesh from contact with lips of lesser clay. By no means ridiculous, the illegal "Royalty" of Budapest are taken in. deadly...
Majestic in his great robes, Pope Pius XI entered, silently, paused before each of the kneeling children, allowed each to kiss his apostolic ring. Not until he stood opposite small smart Louis Osborne did the Holy Father speak...