Word: regal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Java of course is the chief Dutch possession, and Batavia is the capital of Vice-regal Governor General Jonkheer A. C. De Graeff (he recently visited the U. S. unnoticed). But on the Pittsburgh's route Sumatra came before Java and the Davises first landed on Dutch soil at the port for Medan...
...Lieut.-Colonel Sanchez Cerro had pinned Edward of Wales with Peru's Order of the Sun, was pinned in return with the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire. Then he was almost immediately overthrown. As he prepared to sail away from Peru last week in regal style (promising to be back in three months), yet another revolution popped...
...India the Viceroy preserves, if possible, a more regal dignity than George V himself. Men and maharajahs do not sit down in Lord Irwin's presence without his leave, do not speak until the Viceroy has spoken. But last week dignity went by the board when small, brown St. Gandhi clattered up to the Vice-regal Palace at New Delhi in a cheap American automobile and alighted wearing a blanket to which was pinned a dollar watch. As his tiny guest had stipulated, the excessively tall Viceroy met him "as a man, not Viceroy," and St. Gandhi, looking...
...wish to call to your attention an error in a recent issue of TIME. You stated, under Great Britain caption, that Prince George was the youngest son of Britain's king. Not Prince George (b. 1902), but young, almost-unknown Prince John, is the latest regal son. Press-evading Prince John was born in 1905, is handsome, unmarried, keeps his name out of the newspapers (and print as a whole) even more studiously than does the Duke of Connaught...
...lira gold piece ($19.30) Sears on the reverse a full length figure of Christ as King. He holds the usual emblems of regal power : the sceptre and the globe. At his feet cherubs support a crown. About his head is a halo. The inscription: Stato Citta Vaticano...