Word: royale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jews and ended by igniting the town. As at Hebron, where eight U. S. Rabbinical students were killed (TIME, Sept. 2), reports from Safed stressed such accusations as "pillage," "butchery," "rape." Most of the Jews involved were again claimed to have had "no weapons except their household furniture." The Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum plant at Safed was reported burnt out, gutted. Despatches estimated Jewish dead at 22, mentioned no Moslem casualties...
Queen Wilhelmina. So sunk were the Creditor Powers in the slough of their quarrel that Dr. Stresemann's protest was utterly ignored. The Conference did not get back on the highroad of common sense until a jolly royal banquet had been tendered to all concerned by sensible, buxom, motherly Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands...
...much credit should not be given to Her Majesty, but fact was that not many hours after the royal banquet Mr. Snowden, for the first time since the Conference opened, lunched informally with his chief foe, French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, and with Dr. Stresemann. As every U. S. businessman knows, the bigger the deal, the more vital is lunch...
...onetime wife of "Willy" (Novelist Henry Gauthiers-Villars) and of Biographer Henry de Jouvenel (The Stormy Life of Mirabeau, TIME, Aug. 5). Now free and 56, she is short, wellrounded, long-eyed. She likes good food, the Mediterranean, the wildcats she keeps in her small but colorful Palais Royal flat. In literature Authoress Colette is distinguished for presenting the human side of animals, the animal side of humans...
...Royal Meeker, U. S. economist, ridiculed the St. Lawrence waterways project, declared that for the same cost eight parallel railroad tracks could be laid between New York and Chicago...