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...enormous, regal Isotta-Fraschini is the car of two kings of tiny stature, Italy's Vittorio Emanuele and Siam's waif Praja Dhipok. In Manhattan the Isotta is sold by a son of potent Prince-Poet Gabriele D'Annunzio. Sumptuous, fur-carpeted is the new Isotta-Fraschini limousine just presented by Italian admirers to Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royal Motors | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...would have Sherry with the soup, Moselle with the fish, and then we should really begin-we should start drinking clarets!" If to some tyros "claret" means the cheapest sort of vinegary red wine, it means to the initiate a splendorous ascending scale of Bordeaux reds, culminating in massive, regal Châateau Haut-Brion and finally in sublime Chateau Lafite, a wine possessing so grand a flavor and bouquet as to make mere Champagne an anticlimax. After recovering from the ecstacy of sniffing and sipping red Chateau Lafite. however, Mr. George Reeves-Smith likes to end with a white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Paladin of Wine | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...queen was with child, and since the astrologers said that it was a boy, the crown was carried in and placed upon the queen above the supposed location of the unborn infant's head. In this respect the birth of Alphonso must have been a much less regal event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 1, 1929 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...last week, the King-Emperor slipped on his silk stockings, donned regal robes and with the Queen-Empress drove from Buckingham Palace to the Palace of Westminster, where sit at their Parliamentary sessions the Lords & Commons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament Opened | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Furthermore the Grand Council will be empowered to "advise" (direct) the King and the Prime Minister as to their acts Thus the President of the Grand Council, Signer Benito Mussolini, will direct the entire electoral, legislative, executive, and regal mechanism of the State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Pro yesso del Fascismo | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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