Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sheik's goodwill is of vital importance to Britain. Very quietly last year the Persian Gulf base of the Royal Navy was moved from Iran's famed Bushire to Bahrein and thus outside the immediate domain of Iran's King of Kings. The Sheik also allows British planes flying to India to use one of his islands as a landing base. Few years ago the Sheik permitted Standard Oil of California to set up on the island a subsidiary called Bahrein Petroleum Co., which is now booming along with some 1,000,000 barrels production annually...
...Royal tutors meanwhile told anecdotes in Belgrade about the.ir pupil. "Why do trees have leaves?" asked His Majesty. "To breathe," explained English Tutor C. C. Parrott. "Indeed?" said King Peter. "Then how do trees breathe all winter after they have lost their leaves...
...Naughty Tomislav." Eight-year-old Prince Tomislav, brother of 12-year-old King Peter, easily holds all records for successfully teasing members of the Royal Family...
...days ago the palace sentries broke up a game between H. R. H. Prince Tomislav inside the royal iron fence and Belgrade street urchins outside. Object of the game was to see who could spit farthest. According to a Belgrade dispatch last week some Orthodox priests have asked pious Serbs when praying for good King Peter to add "and may God be kind to his naughty brother...
Among rich Catholic laymen, private chapels are not unusual. John Jacob Raskob has one at Hartefield Manor in Maryland; devout Mrs. Nicholas Brady has chapels in her homes in Rome and Manhasset, Long Island. But according to Canon 1205, Section 2 of the Roman Catholic Church, only "popes, royal personages, cardinals, bishops and abbots'' may be buried inside a Catholic church. As his church began to rise, Layman MacManus asked, and got, permission in the form of a papal rescript granting him and his family the extraordinary right to be laid away in it. The MacManus church, called...