Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aldo Castellani, of the Royal Italian Medical Corps, member of the faculty of the School of Medicine of the Louisiana State University, will not give his annual lectures at the Medical School this spring. Dr. Castellani is commander-in-chief of the Italian Medical Corps and must remain close to the Ethiopian situation until the war is ended...
Last year Broadcaster Carter's big row was with the Army's General Staff, the Navy's Board of Navigation on the question of U. S. aerial defense. Carter has first-hand knowledge of military aviation, gained in Wartime service with the Royal Air Force; believes the U. S. should have an independent flying corps. When he continued to pepper Washington officials with broadcasts to this effect, jittery patriots spread the word that Carter was a British...
...notes of a nearby church bell. At 4, he composed a lullaby with which his mother sang him to sleep. At 5, he directed a choir of his playmates. When Alec was 12, his father sold his interest in the farm, moved to London, enrolled his son in the Royal Academy. Father Templeton got himself elected to the London County Council but found it unnecessary to spend any money after his son's first term. Thereafter Alec earned his way with scholarships. At 16, he bested 20,000 pianists in a contest sponsored by the London Daily Express. Alec...
Robert Graves, onetime Captain in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, edited his fellow-soldier's book, wrote an appreciative introduction. Private Richards was already a veteran of 15 years' service when Graves, just out of public school, joined the battalion as an officer. With better luck than most veterans (Graves calls it a "20,000 to 1 chance"), Richards fought through the entire War without missing a battle or stopping a bullet. He won two decorations (Distinguished Conduct Medal, Military Medal), was known as "a good man," but never applied for a promotion and never got one. After...
Frank Richards first heard about army life at the bottom of a Welsh coal mine, when his "buttie," an ex-soldier, held forth on the milk & honey that was India. It sounded livelier than a collier's future, so off went young Richards to enlist in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He was younger than the age he gave the recruiting sergeant, but well set-up and handy with his dukes. He soon got the hang of barrack life, and was enjoying his beer and his "bit of skirt" with the best. He took his part in many...