Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt's second-floor study a seascape which has long hung above the Presidential chair was last week replaced by a full-length, life-sized portrait of John Paul Jones, whose most famed words were "I've just begun to fight...
Greeks last week painted a wheezing steam locomotive pure white, "the bridal color." They shined up a train of cars, screwed onto each a Greek crown in electric lights. Chuffing off went tall, fair, handsome Crown Prince Paul, 36, brother of Greece's George II, and traveled up to the Yugoslav frontier to fetch his German fiancee, broad-faced, broad-smiling Princess Frederika Luise of Hanover, 20. The bridal train itself was six hours late on the run from the frontier to Athens-not, however, an undue delay for Greek trains -and there for nearly eight hours some...
Presents: from His Majesty's Govern-ment a $100,000 mansion, unexpectedly delayed in construction so that Paul & Margaritas had to move into a friend's house in Athens this week, before starting on their wedding trip; from His Majesty's Cabinet & Armed Forces a $10,000 emerald & diamond necklace; from the Greek Royal Yacht Club a yacht; from the President of France a tablecloth; from the Duke & Duchess of Windsor a gift (nature undisclosed) explained by announcing that "the Duke was an old friend of Prince Paul...
...London rumor insists that King George of Greece intends to abdicate the throne to which he was restored only in 1935. In Athens, however, Dictator Metaxas, who does not get on too well with His Majesty but dislikes Prince Paul even more, has recently decreed large financial grants to King George, presumably to persuade him that being King of Greece is, after all, not so terrible...
Captain Henry Sanville, in Gisburne's shadow for two years, and Paul Williams, are competent but not sensational sprinters, about 55 seconds for the 100, 24 seconds for the 50 being their speed. Joe Delone, capable of some 90 points, is the number one diver...