Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...primary were made possible by a curious device to which Tammany resorted. With the Democratic organizations in four of the city's five boroughs (Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens and Richmond) in revolt, Tammany, controlling only Manhattan, foresaw the difficulty of nominating its own candidate for mayor, bumbling Senator Royal S. Copeland, on the Democratic ticket. Therefore, besides entering Dr. Copeland in the Democratic race against the smiling Irish face of Judge Jeremiah Titus Mahoney. Tammany entered Dr. Copeland in the Republican race against the city's explosive little reform mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia (TIME...
After leaving Madrid comparatively alone for three weeks, Rightist artillery last week began dropping in shells at methodical, nerve-racking intervals. Some burst in the onetime Royal armory, beloved of tourists, where many a romantic visitor has discovered that in days of old each noble knight wore a sponge in the crotch of his iron trousers. Meantime, disclosed last week were the shocking circumstances, hitherto unsuspected by most Spaniards, in which last autumn the Leftist Cabinet, then headed by Premier Largo Caballero ("The Spanish Lenin") took flight from Madrid...
Twice before this summer had the Toledo Museum pounced on the sort of thing it wants. From a private English collection which had last shown it at the Royal Academy Exhibition of Old Masters in 1904, the Museum acquired Adoration oj the Child, painted about 1495 by Piero di Cosimo for Lorenzo de' Medici. Notable for its luxuriant and microscopic detail and for the figure of the Child asleep. Piero's own idea, that masterpiece was one of the few the Museum could lay its hands on that it considered worthy of hanging with such possessions as Filippo...
...your issue of Aug. 9, p. 19, you described Eric Titterington Bey as a taster of food for the King of Egypt, to guard him against poisoning. In the royal palaces at Cairo and Alexandria and on the royal yacht, used by the late King for his frequent trips to Europe, are well appointed laboratories in which Mr. Titterington and his staff analyze much of the food used on the royal table. On a visit to the laboratory in the Abdin Palace, Cairo, I found Mr. Titterington was analyzing a keg of butter, part of a large shipment recently shipped...
...since the War have taken U. S. tennis away from Society and made it the remarkable thing it is. When he became an international celebrity at Wimbledon two years ago, Donald Budge's sophistication was such that he cheerily waved his racket at Queen Mary in the royal box. Gottfried von Cramm, who put Budge out in the semi-finals that year, greeted the Queen with the courtliest...