Word: pragger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Emperor Yoshihito was much touched at the superfluity of illumination that the Temple had sent him. He smiled and sent half of them to the Japanese Pragger Wagger (Crown Prince) who, in his garden at Tokyo, liberated them. The Prince, being but recently married, found enough light in the eyes of his Princess Firefly...
...Repulse, sister ship of the Renown,* will dip the Prince of Wales' standard to the roar of guns and cheers of crowds as she casts anchor at Portsmouth and moves with silent, increasing speed past the Blockhouse Fort and across Spithead on the initial stage of the "Pragger-Wagger's" fourth† official trip as Royal Ambassador...
After the ceremony the Pragger Wagger (Oxford slang for Prince of Wales) was invited to witness the chief event of the Eisteddfod-the crowning of the prize ode winner, Prosser Rhys of Aberystwith, editor of The Welsh Banner...
...object to being called royalty," protested the Pragger Wagger, "but I don't mind being called the Prince of Wales. If you are called royalty some people might get the impression that you think you are better than your fellows...
...London Follies," said to be projected under the patronage of the Pragger Wagger...