Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young King, whose father & mother always traveled by special train, had a single royal car hitched to the regular London-Glasgow express one night last week and sped north to the metropolis which is fullest of British Communists. Canny fellows, many of these Scotsmen are like Japanese Communists in viewing the Reigning House as their possible ally against the Upper Classes in a last-ditch social upheaval, or at any rate as safe custodians for immense wealth which never ceases to pile up and ultimately may be shared for the greatest good of the greatest number in the United Kingdom...
...ships and an aircraft carrier, launch five new cruisers, increase Navy personnel 6,000 by March 1937. It would raise four new battalions of British infantry, multiply the present Army's effectiveness several times by costly mechanization, modernize field artillery and anti-aircraft defense. It would increase the Royal Air Force from 1,750 to 2,150 planes, with more than a hint of going on to build up as fast as possible the world's most powerful air force...
From Sir Joshua Reynolds to the present day the Presidents of the Royal Academy have been sober distinguished gentlemen. No exception is the incumbent, Sir William Llewellyn, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Commander of the Legion of Honor, recipient of the Grand Cross of the Crown of Italy. A painter of Queens, he has produced dozens of slick portraits of Queen Mary for clubs, asylums, other institutions. That ardent water colorist Wilhelmina of The Netherlands is so enamored of his brush that she has made him a Grand Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau. Serious critics prefer...
...Sorry as I am to say it," said the President of the Royal Academy, "to my mind, the fate of picture making is sealed. I can see no future. Already there are too many pictures in the world...
...which the heroine was Grace Moore making her first Manhattan opera appearance since 1932. Since then, with One Night of Love and Love Me Forever, the blonde soprano had become a top-notch cinema success. She had sung in London's Covent Garden at the command of the Royal Family (TIME, June 24), returned to the U. S. to be greeted like a Jenny Lind. Airplanes circled her ship, flying streamers inscribed with "WELCOME, GRACE MOORE...