Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impenetrable' miles" from Barranquilla to Panama were covered by compass only-true-and he "hacked," "ferried," "pontooned" and carried his Ford (in pieces?) on the very sizable "mule" Lloyd's registered S. S. Venezuela of the Royal Netherlands Steamship...
...sense." Aged only 13, Crown Prince Leopold was permitted to enlist in the Belgian Army as a private, and before the War was over had fought in the trenches under fire. His redoubtable father, when a treacherous chauffeur attempted to kidnap King Albert to the German lines, drew his royal pistol and executed the miscreant...
After the War, touring the U. S. with his parents, Crown Prince Leopold greatly surprised correspondents on the royal special train by his democratic willingness to play poker, surprised them still further by quietly trimming them most of the time, always refused to say who taught him the game-a suspect being General Pershing...
Dowagers and daughters found that the 17-year-old Crown Prince would answer any question addressed to him, and that was all. Not until he was several years older did he wake up and start courting in his own way Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid.* Completely eluding news gossips who kept marrying him off to other princesses, Leopold would set out from Brussels traveling third class and carrying a small satchel as if going only for a short trip, would arrive at a country station in southeastern Sweden to be met by nobody and walk off with his satchel...
...Crown Prince everywhere took copious notes of the replies made to his questions, collected and studied reports as he went along, and on returning to Brussels closeted himself for weeks, writing up his own reports to King Albert and preparing his speeches to the Senate. As an instance, His Royal Highness drew the Senate's attention at length to the conditions and prices under which the vital tropical drug quinine was available in the Congo, his recommendations leading to the State's supplying quinine free to the indigent and securing reduced prices for natives whose purchasing power...