Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marienbad last week, the age owner of the Hotel Weimar created Czechoslovak stir by opening the "Royal Suite," last occupied in 1909 by British King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra when they came to "take the waters." Down from its wall came a portrait of bewhiskered Kaiser Franz Josef and up went a photograph of smooth-face Führer Henlein. The new occupant of the Suite was Sudeten Nazi Leader Konrad Henlein who went there to confer with representative of Britain's mediator, Viscount Runciman...
...blood that runs in the veins of the Bourbons is blue-and once let, it runs and runs. Not simply royal memories but an old, hereditary fact accompanies this family in its exile: hemophilia. Unlike thrones, hemophilia is not transmitted from father to son, but from mother to son. Contrary to popular belief, hemophiliacs do not bleed incessantly, but the flow of blood, once started, takes a longer time to coagulate. Most of the recent treatment depends on the, theory that the elements of hemophilia are present in the female, but are held in check by some female "essence." Injections...
Dignitary highlight of the summer was awarding of an honorary LL.D. degree to His Royal Highness, Gustar Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden, by President Conant on July 11. The degree was conferred at a special academic meeting held in the Faculty Room of University Hall at 12 o'clock at which nearly 300 persons were present...
...most tear-jerking farewells in its 250-year history was said last week in Edinburgh by the 4th & 7th Dragoon Guards (a regiment of cavalry combining the 4th Royal Irish Dragoons and the 7th Dragoon Guards or Princess Royal's). Henceforth, in order to keep up with the pace of modern war, members of the regiment will go forth to die or be maimed not on plunging chargers but in armored cars. In its last mounted parade before mechanization, the regiment heard Lieut. General Sir Charles Grant read a message of consolation from its honorary colonel, Major General Arthur...
Married. Sylvia Sidney (née Kosow), 28, cinemactress, divorced wife of Publisher Bennett ("Beans") Cerf (Random House); and Luther Adler, 35, actor (Golden Boy), youngest son of the late Tragedian Jacob P. Adler of the Royal Family of the Yiddish theatre; in London...