Word: renown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty's invariable precaution against queasiness of the stomach when she is in expectancy of taking a sea voyage. The soupless royal meal was served for the benefit of the Duke and Duchess of York. On the morrow they were to embark aboard H. M. S. Renown to visit Australia and there open the new Parliament Buildings at Canberra.±I In their absence Queen Mary will care for "Baby Betty"** (Princess Elizabeth) their eight-months-old daughter...
...stepped upon the quay, it was seen that the Duchess had donned with a reason her ensemble of silver grey shoes, stockings, custume and hat, relieved only by a bunch of violets. There, lolling upon the waves, lay the grim, dark grey Atlantic Fleet; but, in the centre, the Renown shone all resplendent in silver grey dress paint...
...pleasure of Lord Beatty, Admiral of the Fleet, one Jonah Uden, a marine aboard the Battle cruiser H. M. S. Renown, was ordered recently to London and there instructed in the art of female hairdressing by a Court coiffeur. Last week Jonah Uden was pronounced capable of waving, marcelling, bobbing, shingling and shampooing. Proficient, he was ordered back to the Renown, where no woman...
...Admiralty announced that the inflexible rule forbidding the presence of a female on a British ship of war is to be relaxed when T. R. H. the Duke and Duchess of York set out on the Renown in January to dedicate the new Australian capital Canberra (TIME, Aug. 23). With the Royal Duchess will travel two ladies in waiting: Lady Cavan and the Hon. Mrs. John Gilmour. Upon their heads Marine Jonah Uden will practice his art as the first naval coiffeur...
...book, his presence broods over the opening scene. A vast, shaggy, Rabelaisian music master, he has fled England and wandered through Europe accumulating wives, mistresses, children, disciples, renown. He has at last brought them all, "Sanger's Circus," to a sprawling chalet in the Austrian Tyrol. There, shut away with his boar hound, he is dying. His nubile daughters live in an abandon of cultured savagery, vivid but slatternly mixtures of profundity and ignorance...