Word: royale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Without ceremony, three automobiles drew up before Sir Arthur (Dunlop tires) Du Cros's comfortable stucco Craigwell House. Standing by the door were butlers, footmen, cooks, grooms, gardeners, royal marines-all who had served and guarded the King during his illness. Through the door came Their Majesties, snugly buttoned up, and as they passed down the line each servant received either a gold stickpin or a pair of gold cufflinks, blue enameled with the royal monogram. Into the car behind the King's stepped Sir Stanley Hewett, His Majesty's physician, and four trained nurses entered another...
Great was the celebration in Windsor when the royal motorcade drove through High Street. Pinafored schoolchildren waved flags and screamed excitedly. The merry housewives of Windsor showered rose petals on King George's sober limousine. At the foot of Queen Victoria's statue stood the black-robed mayor and red-robed Town Councilors...
London society was feverishly trying to guess last week who the author of King George's latest biography might be. The book, "By a Person in Close Touch with the Royal Family," was begun at the height of the King's illness in the ghoulish expectation of being the first posthumous biography. With the King's recovery, proof sheets of the volume were forwarded to Buckingham Palace for approval last week. Officials, horrified at the revelation of personal details in the King's private life, not only forbade its publication but sent special King...
...royal palace at Kabul, Padishah Habibullah, as the muscular Bacha Sakao now calls himself, opened no boxes, neither tugged nor grunted. He, debonair, wears tight kid gloves to show his gentility, brandishes two loaded rifles to show his dexterity, wears plentiful ammunition against emergencies, rules most of Afghanistan...
...difference in diameter of 6/100 in., in weight of 7/100 oz., was authorized for standard U. S. golf balls last week by the U. S. Golf Association. The difference may engender international complications next year because the Royal & Ancient Society of St. Andrews, high court of British golf, has refused to change the present standard ball. The new ball is said to make lies better, putting straighter, drives shorter by five or six yards. Because it has more surface and less weight it increases the errors of hookers, slicers...