Word: royale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tycoon, and aunt of much-married Millicent Rogers Salm Ramos, she is a recent widow of Urban Hanlon Broughton, a British engineering tycoon, to whom a title had long been promised. Britons found more interest in the new title than in the new peeress who bore it. By Royal decree, Mrs. Broughton became Cara, Baroness Fairhaven, in honor of the fishing village on Buzzard's Bay, Mass., where her father was born. British heraldic experts said that, though many a British peer has chosen for his title the name of a foreign place-viz., Kitchener of Khartoum (Egypt), Byng...
...Philippines, and throughout Oceania there was much wailing, beating of breasts, disposing of chattels at the arrival of "the end of the world"-and much surprise when the world went on. The Siamese were much upset for fear of royal disasters produced by the eclipse. At the eclipse of 1868, King Rama IV, an amateur observer, caught cold from exposure and died of pneumonia...
...university town are its handsome editices and well-kept grounds. For the most part Harvard's buildings have been constructed with some attempt to please the eye, and the daily pick-up of all wayward cigarette stubs along the walks of the Yard would do justice to a royal lawn. But the care bestowed by the university on other parts of its property is very different...
...Critic Royal Cortissoz of the New York Herald-Tribune: "Some imaginative ambition presumably is involved . . . but it has not been at all tangibly realized...
Clothes were the keynote, last week, of the opening of the Royal Academy exhibition in London. The pictures were of that conventional, familiar stripe which appeals to all well-bred Englishmen. But when Eagless Margot Asquith, who always enjoys her own idiosyncrasies, appeared in a cubistic gown of black and white chiffon, many a dun-clad dowager began sputtering to her companions. The newspapers talked about...