Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ways within itself as King Edward at his snuggery maintains a highly mobile position, ready for instant action. Not only articles of abdication but an entire sheaf of other solutions, drafted in legal form by the King's personal Attorney General Walter Turner Monckton, lie ready to the royal hand. The Captain of the King's Flight, famed "Mouse" Fielden, is under orders to keep His Majesty's private plane tuned day & night, ready for instant takeoff. The pitch of the crisis remains screwed up to a dry screech. His Majesty King Edward VIII refuses to receive...
...Never publicly performed in England because the censor, the Lord Chamberlain, bans any play in which any member of the Royal Family who is living or insufficiently long dead appears. Last week Edward VIII decided that Queen Victoria is now sufficiently long dead (35 years), decreed that after June 10, 1937 plays in which his great-grandmother figures may be publicly produced in Britain...
...London paper of largest circulation, Baron Beaverbrook's Daily Express, carried a leering rumor from The Hague that in the Royal Gardens "someone did catch a glimpse" of the Crown Princess and her fiance, Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld (TIME, Dec. 7 et ante}, "just at a moment when the Prince put his arm around the Princess's neck and kissed her." The "someone" who observed the engaged couple may have been Queen Wilhelmina herself or any other Dutch chaperon for all the Daily Express appeared to know, but Lord Beaverbrook's paper carried the story...
...Japanese Government, with its practised flair for choosing the safe moment to be offensive, took advantage last week of world-wide preoccupation with Britain's Battle Royal to ram yet another thorn into China's flesh...
...original 738 have since increased to some 23,000 and, despite scattering of specimens over Canada and the world, the Park herd requires a periodic thinning out. Warden Purshell was reducing a herd of 6,000. Buffalo meat is relished by Canadian gourmets, buffalo-hide overcoats esteemed by Royal Northwest Mounted Police...