Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England's most brilliant Greek scholars. Dr. Cecil M. Bowra, Senior Tutor since 1933 of Wadham College, Oxford, will give courses in Homer's "Odyssey" and in "Greek Lyric Poetry of the Fifth Century." At the age of 19, Dr. Bowra fought in France with the Royal Field Artillery. Upon graduating from New College, Oxford, in 1920, he specialized in the study of Classical Greek Poetry, and has published several works, including "Tradition and Design in the Iliad," 1930; "Ancient Greek Poetry," 1933; "Greek Lyric Poetry," 1935; and in 1930 he was co-editor of the Oxford Book of Greek...
...ready to open up with a roar should reporters give chase. Thus neatly great Victoria's granddaughter slipped away, with the U. S. State Department honoring her Queen's prerogative to travel without a passport, and the U. S. Treasury Department speeding through the Customs her royal luggage which she had left aboard the liner...
...contingent of Spanish Monarchist youths sailed on the Conte di Savoia from the French Riviera to Gibraltar to enlist and tight with the Spanish Whites. To them Victoria Eugenie was "Our Queen." They knelt to Her Majesty and kissed her hand while the Italian band played the Spanish royal anthem. Thus in pathetic dignity Victoria Eugenie steamed past and saw at close range the Spain in which her life was dogged by so many betrayals and disasters that even on the throne she was called the "Queen of Sorrows...
...captured the former Red Militia General Staff Headquarters at Santa Olalla after savage bayonet fighting. At this the Madrid Government nervously issued what sounded like a desperate last-stand proclamation, calling "all citizens to the colors!" In Milan. Italy, ousted King Alfonso XIII of Spain popped into the Italian Royal Automobile Club, hopefully bought a set of Spanish road maps while his queen Victoria Eugenic was on sad business in Manhattan...
...outworn precedents and statutes, which are often ridiculously funny and usually point a good moral. Herbert's first case is the funniest, and from it you may gain an idea of the manner of all the rest. It is "Tiurib, Rumble, and Others v. The King and Queen"--Fish Royal. Tinrib, Rumble and others bring suit against the King and Queen for the removal of a whale which has been cast ashore near the town of Pudding Magna. The whale, according to ancient decree is fish royal and belongs to their majesties. Consequently the inhabitants of Pudding Magna...