Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...copy in the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World.* Guffaws of bass laughter rocked the President's office as he cracked jokes with the chieftains of IBPOEW and received from Grand Exalted Ruler James Finley Wilson, the "Little Napoleon of Negro Elkdom," an invitation to review a parade in Washington on Aug. 27, during the IBPOEW convention. Joining with Grand Exalted Ruler Wilson in pressing the invitation were Grand Commissioner of Athletics John Thomas Rhine, Washington's leading Negro undertaker; Grand Esteemed Loyal Knight Roy Solomon Bond, Maryland's most famed Negro lawyer...
...humor King George cracked jokes and roared with mirth during the meal. Thus two hours were whiled away, every minute being needed to get 182 fighting ships into the air ready for the "Fly Past" over Duxford. This was made at the unusually high altitude for an air force review of 1,000 feet "because the king is greatly affected by noise." So were 150,000 spectators. Even at 1,000 feet the menacing clatter of the air armada filled Britons less with pride than fear. The great throng at the climax of the "Fly Past" seemed stricken dumb. Sober...
...Squire Baldwin, whose hobby is breeding prize pigs, was the only prominent member of His Majesty's Government who did not take time out to attend the Spithead sea pageant. Cousin Kipling, on the other hand, had been so fired by the prospect of this Silver Jubilee Naval Review that he had been grinding away for weeks in an effort to repeat the success of his Recessional, written for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Last week 69-year-old Mr. Kipling released his poem free of copyright to anyone who would print it in full.* Silent was England...
...Enemy In Sight!" In July 1914, just eight days before the World War broke, George V reviewed 228 war boats off Spithead in the greatest steam-past of his reign. Last week he scanned 160 war boats, including the Australian flagship, H. M. A. S. Australia which recently brought H. R. H. the Duke of Gloucester home from his tour Down Under (TIME, April 8). Last week Gloucester was marooned on the Australia while the King's other three sons were with His Majesty on the brass-funneled Victorian royal yacht Victoria and Albert. From her forepeak flew...
Happy as the great review closed, George V, as Lord High Admiral of England, ordered "Splice the main brace!" This used to mean that every man aboard got a ration of rum nicely calculated to make him feel elated without getting him too drunk to be of further use- ⅛pint. Today those who do not wish to become elated can ask for a limeade, never mentioned by the King without picturesque additions...