Word: passante
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...Princess Alice: "I always have the greatest difficulty in getting her away from the window of an art dealer's shop. She remains there with her nose glued to the glass rather like a child looking into a tuck shop." ¶To the surprise of Welshmen, the dragon passant, emblematic beast of Wales, was seen to have vanished last week along with the three "Prince of Wales" feathers from the arms of the Duchy of Cornwall, as new emblems designed by the College of Arms were submitted for the approval of King Edward...
Reformed Red Lansbury explained to correspondents en passant that he now fervently regrets having once churlishly refused a cigar offered him by the late King Edward VII. "It was very impolite and silly of me," he added contritely, "although I have the excuse that I did not then and do not now smoke, or approve of smoking...
...absent from Nicaragua on Nov. 10, 1926. The President did not touch upon this point. Dr. Sacasa, of course, declares that he was absent because, had he been present he would have been shot down like a dog by his enemies: the Diaz-Charnorro faction. President Coolidge observed en passant, that at the end of November, after spending some time in Mexico City, Dr. Sacasa went back to Nicaragua, landing at Puerto Cabezas, near Bragman's bluff (with an armed force...
...last week, sped across the Balkans toward Paris. At every terminal crowds surged to glimpse Queen Marie of Rumania. During the run across Jugoslavia a second royal car was coupled to the train. Within rode Queen Marie of Jugoslavia who was thus able to visit her royal mother en passant. For a time the spectacle of two "regular royal queens" distracted attention from Prince Nicholas, 23, and Princess Ileana,, 17, of Rumania who accompanied their mother...
...Sinclair Lewis, Lady Diana Manners, Fritzi Massary, "the German Sarah Bernhardt," strolled past the café, were filmed en passant. James Speyer, famed Manhattan banker, followed with Mrs. Joseph Medill ("Chicago Tribune") Patterson (née Higinbotham...