Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Jack Sprat and his Queen would not present an appearance more distinctive than do Their Majesties King Vittorio Emanuele and Queen Elena. From the wild mountains of Montenegro, where women are not only women but Amazons, came Elena. Last week Her Majesty wrote to peasant-born Benito Mussolini with Amazonian directness...
Favorite grandchild and namesake of Queen Victoria, the princess had been known all her life in the Royal Family as "Toria," suffered incessantly from various complaints, and had never married because, in the Victorian phrase, "her beloved was of less than royal station." King George called her his "sweetest sister." She gravely and dutifully aided that merry monarch Edward VII as his personal secretary until his death. Then, with her beautiful and imperious mother, the Dowager Queen Alexandra, she passed into even more dutiful retirement, became "Alexandra's shadow." Not until she was 57 did Princess Victoria ever have...
...Gortz who now calls himself a novelist, was arraigned on charges of prying into Britain's air defense secrets. With him in a cozy bungalow lived the pretty girl His Majesty's Military Intelligence Department thinks filched secrets from handsome young officers of His Majesty's Royal Air Force, demure Fräulein Marianne Emig...
...what a lady she is by arriving early, taking her favorite seat, and then as Old George came in, rising with a sneer "to give the gentleman my seat." ¶ Observed with further distaste efforts by Scottish Laborite Jock McGovern to make his stubborn point that members of the Royal Family, considering the size of their private incomes, are paid too much. If a worker is shown by the so-called "means test" to have more than an absolute minimum of income he cannot draw dole payments from the State. Year after year Jock McGovern asks to have what...
Last week the Royal Gallery of the Houses of Parliament was being "renovated" for the coming trial. A woolsack was installed for Viscount Hailsham to sit upon in his capacity as Lord High Chancellor and a gilt chair from the King's robing room for use in his other capacity as Lord High Steward. For this occasion the House of Lords official known as Black Rod will carry not his usual black rod but a white rod, for the reason that after sentence is delivered the Lord High Steward must break Black Rod's white rod across...