Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years, handsome, six-foot, curly black-haired and swankly mustached Robert Henry Ethelbert King-Tenison, Viscount Kingsborough, 40, heir to the Earl of Kingston, War veteran and a onetime subaltern in the Royal Scots Greys, was on terms of the greatest intimacy with a Miss Adele Royle, 34, dressmakers' mannequin. Early this spring His Lordship's attention began to wander, and Miss Royle promptly sued for breach of promise. The case was instantly quashed in the courts, and Mannequin Royle was fined costs of court. Last week Viscount Kingsborough struck back in turn. In Miss Royle...
...about 35 years of age, males of the Royal Family are among the most appreciative voluntary patrons of London slapstick vaudeville, but now that George VI has assumed the throne, many loyal subjects find it slightly improper to think that such crude amusement can be either to the King's or the Queen's taste. Fortnight ago millions of provincial radio listeners to the first vaudeville Command Performance before Their Majesties agreed that the B. B. C.'s female commentator had struck exactly the right note in saying of Queen Elizabeth: "She is smiling sweetly, as though...
...object of the organizers of the collection is to show the extraordinary advances which have been made in the technique of nature photography. Amongst the societies which have exhibited them are the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, the Birmingham Photographic Society, the Scottish National Salon, and the British Museum, where it was on view for over a year...
...greatest rival was Sir Joshua Reynolds, head of the Royal Academy, to which he also belonged. Their relations had always been strained. Tom was unreasonable in the matter of hanging his own pictures; he ignored his colleagues' invitations and never repaid their visits. Reynolds, on the other hand, treated him with great friendliness and respect, terming him the "first landscape painter in Europe...
From his deathbed Gainsborough finally wrote his gratitude to Reynolds and asked gently for a reconciliation. Sir Joshua came, and he heard Tom whisper his dying words: "We are all going to heaven and Vandyck is of the party." Some months afterwards Reynolds addressed the Royal Academy on the genius of Thomas Gainsborough. It was a weighty analysis, and very gallant...