Word: masseurs
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...usually accept my copy of TIME as being very close to the truth. It is surprising, therefore, to read in the Manitoba Free Press that the man you mention as a masseur in the late King George V's funeral is Constantin Cotalan, a member of the highest Rumanian military order of "Mihai Viteazul...
...Majesty was nightly the focus of gay revels, and on the morning of King George's funeral was in such condition that a masseur named Stoebs was hastily summoned from a fashionable West End Turkish bath. He worked over King Carol and produced some results but it was considered necessary to continue the massage in the royal limousine as it sped to Westminster Hall. In ensuing confusion Masseur Stoebs, in his white duck trousers and civilian coat from beneath which peeped a white masseur's sweater, fell into step after groggy and bloodshot-eyed Carol II behind...
Only London paper to print these facts was the Communist Daily Worker. Since picture editors of other London dailies could not spread before their loyal public the panoply of marching kings without also showing Masseur Stoebs, they got over the difficulty with captions identifying him variously as "a representative of Transylvania" and "a representative of Armenia." Unwilling to take refuge in such a downright lie, one editor merely captioned: "Picturesque uniforms worn by some of the suites of the foreign royalties...
...Hints that the masseur's name began with K. brought a rash of "Mr. K." headlines. A cable from Berlin, based on reports by Germany's Consul in Manhattan, revealed him as Herr Paul Kress who has taken out his first and applied for his second U. S. naturalization papers...
...keep the issue broad. Mayor LaGuardia angrily refused to reveal the aspiring German masseur's name. This antagonized reporters to the point of hinting there was no such masseur, caused excited Mr. Moss to vow, "On my word of honor as a gentleman and as a Commissioner, there is such...