Word: maude
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...Cambridge Bay, Victoria Island. To its frozen remoteness eight bearded, twitching men tottered. Their leader, Col. C. D. H. McAlpine, only after being warmed and fed, explained that they were the Canadian exploring party who were lost with their two seaplanes two months ago in a snowstorm over Queen Maud Sea. Out of fuel, they alighted on the water and dragged their planes to shore. They did not know that they were only 40 miles from the Fort St. James. Even had they known, they could not have crossed the water. After long delay the winter freeze arrived. Then came...
...Pronounced Maud-ruh-geh-yehv-sky, shortened to Mode-geh-ski when Mme. Modrze-jewska took out her U. S. naturalization papers...
...amphitheatre by the row-boat-ridden Serpentine, military bands were playing "Tipperary," "A Long, Long Trail," old songs of the War. The bands ceased. Into the amphitheatre marched massed choirs of London churches in cassock and cotta, at their head the sedate Bishop of Kensington, Rt. Rev. John Primatt Maud, solemn in billowing lawn sleeves, and pectoral cross. The Bishop took his place on the speakers' platform. A rocket curved up into the evening air. The Bishop of Kensington read the Lord's Prayer and a prayer for the King...
Both Bowdoin prizes, for the best translations, in Latin and in Greek, submitted to the Department of Classics, were won by John Primott Redcliffe Maud '29, of London, England. Each of these prizes was $50. The John Osborne Sargent prize of $100 for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace was awarded to Gerald Frank Else '29, of Kansas City, Missouri, and Honorable Mention went to David Demarest Lloyd '31, of Plainfield, New Jersey, and Ethelbert Talbot Donaldson '32, of Tuckahoe, New York...