Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This of course alarmed Germans last week and they were further vexed by the "hypocrisy" - as Nazi newsorgans called it - with which Chancellor Chamberlain asserted: "Everyone knows that the British Royal Air Force will never be used to make an unprovoked attack on anyone...
...Once the royal signature "Edward R. I." had been affixed, it became possible for grim-jawed Lieut. General John Greer Dill, commanding the new British Expeditionary Force in Palestine (TIME, Oct. 5), to: 1) impose censorship of the press and all communications; 2) issue regulations which, so long as they are in the form "for the public safety," may be of any kind General Dill thinks best and unchallengeable in any court of law; 3) order the arrest, detention or exclusion from Palestine of anyone; 4) order private property forfeited to the Crown or destroyed as a punitive measure. Arab...
...reaching London, Edward VIII drove to Buckingham Palace, breakfasted with Queen Mary and his sister the Princess Royal. Then a crowd gathered outside saw the Queen, her pallid face working with grief, leave the Palace on the arm of her son, after having resided there 25 years. Blue-coated Bobbies saluted, scarlet-clad Palace sentries presented arms, many women in the crowd wept, men cheered in hoarse, choked voices and Queen Mary with a visible effort just managed a slight wave of her white-gloved hand...
...That King Edward has given jewelry worth $1,000,000 to Mrs. Simpson was asserted in the U. S. smartchart Town & Country last week with the comment: "The King is proud of her. Anyone bold enough to object to her being at the royal table would be quickly disgraced." In shipping $50,000 worth of this year's finest U. S. silver fox pelts to a "royal purchaser" in London last week, the Manhattan fur export firm's owner Julius Green hinted: "Some people take it for granted these silver foxes are a gift to Mrs. Simpson." Meanwhile...
...King Edward's 13-year-old nephew, Viscount Lascelles, elder son of the Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood, reached in his Eton schooldays last week that awful moment at which his Tutor assigned him to "fag" for a senior Etonian. This "fag-master" will expect his tea to be made and his room tidied by Viscount Lascelles who will find his posterior more or less vigorously "swished" with a cane or fives-bat if the toast is burned or the fag-master's cricket boots are improperly cleaned. The King's nephew will most certainly be thus...