Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they knew them. But they don't know them, because they've paid attention only to the particular lines of descent that had the money and the prestige. And 99 times out of 100 those lines of descent got their money and prestige-like the royal families of Europe-by grabbing some swag 300 years ago and holding on for dear life ever since...
...permitted to leak from, the Court of St. James's last week that "The King is furious." Never to date has the Sailor King seen why for the sake of some blackamoors his beloved war ships should be risked in the Mediterranean. The British Royal Family is on definitely friendly terms with the Italian Royal Family. As a friend, George V is stanch, and the salty admirals who are the King's cronies over late Scotch nightcaps have never considered the League worth a brave man's belch...
...county in which the crime is supposed to have taken place must pay, a tradition exists for piling on every expense that can be thought of. For last week's trial, which cost some $50,000, it was not enough to install six microphones and loudspeakers in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords; they had to be especially gilded to blend with the antique décor. For draping the chamber with suitable hangings favored drapers got at least $2,000. Since there was much nose-holding at these costs, and since there was already much more...
Each Lord rose to answer "Here!" All then departed in their trailing robes and black cocked hats from the House of Lords into the open street, whence they proceeded to the Royal Gallery. In this Gallery's gallery a fashionable crush had poured in around slender, fragile U. S. Ambassador Robert W. Bingham. Bright-eyed with anticipation, he had arrived first, as he nearly always does at spectacles of British pageantry...
Invited as guest of honor to a London banquet, Professor Henry Edward Armstrong, 87, Ph. D.. LI. D., D. Sc., famed British chemist and oldest Fellow of the Royal Society, appeared in brown velvet jacket and bright magenta waistcoat with one mauve lapel, one blue. Chirped he: "I want to do everything that everybody else doesn't do. I am trying my hardest to overcome the indecent shyness of Englishmen...