Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eight prancing horses drew a gilded coach fairytalewise from the Palace of Buckingham to Westminster?from the residence of the sovereign to the assembly halls of the British Parliament. George Frederick Ernest Albert R. I. of Windsor (formerly of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha*) rode within, attired in a blazing red and gold field-marshal's uniform. Beside him sat the Queen-Empress, Victoria Mary, daughter of the late Francis Duke of Teck. Few of all the throngs that cheered them recalled that in 1892, one year before they were married, the death of Albert, Prince of Wales (now commonly referred...
...resemble most and whose device and motto she uses (a peacock rampant, subscribed Pour y parvenir), bobbed her hair and eloped with Sir John Manners 400 years ago, making a speech to her relatives which Diana paraphrased in 1919 after finding and nursing Captain Alfred Duff-Cooper in a Red Cross station in France: "But I love the man, and I shall have none other. I'll never wear the cap of St. Catherine, because old maids are only found in museum cases." Lady Diana made her own wedding dress "But I want to make my own dresses" and wore...
...world is stony and studded with thorns as well as gold. She attends a vast banquet in the Hall of a count's castle, she becomes the bride of an emperor. And at last she faces death and revolution (black and red) and the winter night, cold and miserable...
Last week Helen Wills (if it is true that she is keeping a diary) continued her entries in the red morocco notebook (TIME, Feb. 8), somewhat as follows...
...recess, two boys in a schoolyard begin quarreling over a nice red apple. One of them, by fair means or foul, procures it, whereupon the disgruntled lad shouts: "Ha! it's gotta woim hole. Ha! it's gotta woim hole! You got stung!" This kind of conduct is quite normal in shrill Jimmy Nine and smudgy Butch Ten?but when for the two lads you substitute a pair of famous daily newspapers, and for the red apple a valuable "feature," is such behavior decent? Is it dignified? People asked this question last week about the New York World...