Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S Letters (Oct. 28, Nov. 18) A. H. McFarlan has apparently been crabbing about your interesting and newsworthy remarks about the eminently respectable and respected British Royal family...
...McFarlan objects to TIME'S treatment of the British Royal Family. They are such nice people and he is right about the Poor Sportmanship...
...have been warned that if Proposal 4A is put into effect, Benito Mussolini will say "Yes" to the 125 fanatical young aviators who have asked whether they may strike a suicidal blow for Italy by diving 125 planes each loaded with a bomb into 125 ships of the British Royal Navy which now has some 200 ships in the Mediterranean...
...keep people from thinking about what might upset them. About things normally censorable it is far more tolerant than Will H. Hays. The British Board of Film Censors objects to scenes showing mental disorders, the preliminaries to childbirth, drunken women, cruelty to animals, miscegenation, police brutality, lovable criminals, the Royal Family and the U. S. expression "nerts." Furthermore the Board always tries to do what it thinks the British Foreign and Home Offices would want it to do. Thus, it prevents British citizens from seeing anything that might make them dislike nations officially friendly to Britain...
Last July the British cruiser Suffolk was warped to a berth in Portsmouth harbor. While nervous Chinese gentlemen hovered anxiously around, a gang of Royal Marines slowly carried ashore 93 brass-trimmed steel trunks. In those trunks were 21,000 separate pieces of imperial Manchu treasure which, lent by the Nanking Government, were leaving China for the first time in history. To help assemble them, the great Orientalist and retired importer George Eumorfopoulos sold his own collection and hurried to the East (TIME, Jan. 28). All 21.000 were unpacked and spread out last week in the Royal Academy...