Word: royal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...storm of pacifist ridicule, Baden-Powell started the organization in England. He first won the approval of Lord Roberts and in 1909 paid a visit to Edward VII at Balmoral. His enthusiasm carried the old King away, and when the veteran left Balmoral he carried not only the royal approval but a Knighthood and the Star of a Knight Commander of the Victorian Order for himself. Three years later there were 400,000 Boy Scouts in England...
Nonchalance. The comparative nonchalance of other Britons durin the eleventh hour was well shown when the former Labor Premier Macdonald visited the opening of the Royal Academy's summer exhibition, and chatted there amiably with the wife of Conservative Premier Baldwin...
Alexander I, youthful sovereign of the five-year-old kingdom of Jugoslavia,* motored gaily last week through the ominously famed city of Sarajevo. There he saw a chimney sweep-in the Balkans an omen of good luck. Smiling, His Majesty stopped the royal motor, offered the chimney sweep 100 dinars ($1.76) for two straws from his grimy brush. Astonished and suspicious, the chimney sweep refused to sell even one straw. Outraged, the royal chauffeur revealed his master's identity: "Louse of a chimney sweep! Do you defy your King...
Carefully His Majesty enfolded the second straw in his purse. When he returned to the royal castle at Belgrade, he gave it to a lad of three, towheaded, bonny, already a personage. He was Peter Alexander's eldest son, heir to the throne of the Kraljevina Srba, Hrvata, Slovenaea (the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes: Jugoslavia...
...across the Sahara, smitten sorely by sand- storms, but not before M. Maurice Reygasse, savant and Governor of the Department of Tebessa, had ingratiated himself with Amenokal Akhamouk, monarch of the Tuaregs (who only a few years ago scourged the desert, slew foreigners), to such an extent that a royal edict was issued to find and lay before white archeologists a manuscript containing, in several hundred sheets of parchment, the only known history of the Tuaregs. This should throw much light on the history of the Punic Carthaginians with whom, it is now established, the Tuaregs traded extensively...