Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simpson (cheers) ; her first husband Commander Spencer, U.S.N. (boos); her second and present husband Mr. Simpson (cheers & boos); the Archbishop of Canterbury (BOOS); new Crown Princess Elizabeth (boos); new King George & Queen Elizabeth (boos!); Prime Minister Baldwin (PROLONGED CATCALLS AND BOOS!); King Edward & Mrs. Simpson bathing in the Mediterranean (CHEERS...
Colored movies with sound will be shown by Ellsworth S. Grant '39 in the Junior Common Room of Eliot House at 7:30 o'clock on Wednesday, after the weekly House dinner. The title of the travel pictures is "The Mediterranean and the British Isles...
...After dining with Mrs. Simpson and making merry with friends who drifted in afterward, His Majesty left after midnight by sleeping car to review at Portland the Home Fleet, just back from "threatening" Italy in the Mediterranean (TIME, Sept. 30, 1935). The Royal Yacht Victoria & Albert on which King George and Queen Mary always put to sea to review the fleet was slept in by King Edward, tied to the dock at Portland. Rousingly cheered, His Majesty cried genially, "The last time I was at Portland, I was a midshipman!", proceeded to inspect the fleet from a fast admiral...
...their daughter for him to raise. But by 1746 Fortunatus Wright was famed throughout Great Britain as a dazzling privateer, "the brave corsair" whose raids on French shipping had netted him 16 ships and prize money totaling ?400,000. The boldest of English pirates, Wright operated in the hostile Mediterranean with such success that the King of France offered a title to the man who captured him, dead or alive. Back on his farm in Wales, Mr. Bulkeley commented little on his son-in-law's fame. He noted more unsuccessful lawsuits, letters from his daughter telling...
...wholly in vain that the high-strung leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Laborite Major Clement Attlee, barked like a terrier at St. Bernard Baldwin: "The Mediterranean has been abandoned to the Fascist State! The Far East has been abandoned to Japan! What is left? The policy of this Government has not brought us nearer to Peace, but closer and closer...