Word: royal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...George last week was a very great comfort to the British Cabinet in this respect. When His Majesty is asked to sit down and sign a paper by his Principal Private Secretary, the King first observes whether it is the paper it is supposed to be, duly forwarded for royal signature by the proper British authorities, and then His Majesty signs it with his right hand, having broken himself after years of effort of left-handedness...
...expectation of her child (TIME, Oct. 19). In their absence H. M. Mary, the Queen Mother, H. M. the King, H. M. the Queen, and H. R. H. the Duke of Kent bore the brunt of what His Majesty in his accession address called the "heavy tasks" of the Royal Family...
...people who listened to the abdication broadcast of the Duke of Windsor, a broadcast so moving that last week the official B. B. C. in London for the first time refused to let His Master's Voice Ltd. make and sell in England phonograph records of a royal broadcast.* It would be a travesty of British facts not to say roundly that there was "the heaviest possible British censorship emanating from official quarters" last week. Actually this never ceased. Before, during and since the crisis, no London newspaper has seen fit to print anything seriously embarrassing to His Majesty...
...sent her photographs and plans of residences he might rent. It was also definite that His Royal Highness made a number of calls to England and expressed regret to certain loyal Gentlemen of the Palace and others to whom in his agitated state of mind he used harsh words during the crisis. It was not a matter of apology or forgiveness, but of right royal regret...
...Cigna, who earned a gold medal studying piano at the Paris Conservatory, has been a star at Milan's La Scala ever since Toscanini recommended her there six years ago. Much was expected of Kerstin Thorborg, tall young Swede whose contralto won her first place at the Stockholm Royal Opera...