Word: knoxious
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...last week, said nothing. And below the Tweed there were pooh-poohs. Said one palace official: "As guests of the French people, the Princess and her husband shared in a typical continental Sunday. There would appear to be nothing wrong in that." Another who found the Scottish rebuke overly Knoxious was the Venerable J.H.L. Morrell, Archdeacon of Lewes. The royal couple, said Morrell, had "formally done their duty to God by attending divine services on God's day," then had merely "enjoyed themselves naturally and normally as people [in France] normally behave." But nobody knew better than royalty that...
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