Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admitted again, our 'assertion of claim.' ":* ¶Received with loud and significant cheers a speech by former Civil Lord of the Admiralty George Lambert in which this mild-mannered Liberal M. P. urged His Majesty's Government to "adopt a two-power air standard-a British Royal Air Force twice as strong as that of any other nation! . . . The League of Nations has failed, and we must rely on our own strong right arm. . . . There is more loot in London than in Addis Ababa, and I prefer that London should not be at the mercy...
Next to "mutiny," the word the Royal Navy least likes to utter is "sabotage." Last week the Admiralty, omitting details, tersely noted that sabotage had just damaged the electrical system of the cruiser Cumberland, and that sabotage recently damaged the electrical systems of the battleship Royal Oak and the submarine Oberon. "It would not be in the public interest," concluded the Admiralty, "to make any statement further...
...came to pass that there was great strife abroad in all the land of the free. For lo! from out the far-off land of the royal oak hast come the voice of the priest, crying, "Wherefore hast thou deceived thy people? Wherefore hast thou removed the names from the petition, O thou servant of the money changers?" And him that he revileth; him who representeth in honor in the city of the father of all the land hath been most wroth. His countenance hath fallen, and his anger hath kindled within him, and his dignity hath left him. Wherefore...
Sweater letters won by collegiate red-bloods are viewed with haughty amusement by that scion of numerous bloods-royal, Prince René de Bourbon-Parme, upon whose sports-sweater are the royal...
That the Germans were also entitled to sink the Lusitania was roundly declared last week by one of Britain's highest naval authorities, Admiral the Earl of Cork and Orrery, commander of the British Home Fleet (1933-35), President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and Admiral Commanding the Royal Naval War College (1929-32). To a London audience, over which gradually fell a great hush, the Admiral declared: "The Lusitania might have been used to transport 10,000 American troops on a single voyage to fight Germany. If women and children choose to cruise about in war areas...