Word: royale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recalled to him how once he near upset the captain's gig, of which I was coxswain, by his skylarking! Look, he gave me his picture in an admiral's uniform." George V, still mindful of the fact that he was eleven years at sea with the Royal Navy, and once commanded H. M. S. Meiampus, wears his trousers creased down the side, sailor fashion, to this day (see cut). As a "midshipmite" he wore a smart sea jacket, carried a small ivory-handled dirk, emblem of the fact that he was neither an enlisted...
Even news of a royal prince-H. R. H. the Duke of Gloucester-was subordinated last week to the following item which London's august Times placed prominently at the head of its daily column "News In Brief": The cuckoo was heard on Monday morning in the coppices at Coombe Hill, Surrey. Two items down appeared an intimation that the Duke of Gloucester, third son of His Majesty George V, had consented to become the Patron of a charitable institute. Provokingly mysterious and stimulating to alert imaginations was a third gem of news, the eighth in the column...
...passionate defense of "our team." Italian editors shrieked to highest heaven that the Austrian team had "played foul," that the flag of Italy had not floated over the stadium, and that the Austrian brass band had played the old Italian royal hymn-obviously a gross insult to Fascisti who never sing anything except their own anthem, "Youth! Youth! Springtime of Beauty!" The umpire of the match, an Englishman, disqualified two Italians for roughness. Broken lanyards prevented the hoisting of the Italian flag. The Austrian bandmaster had no Fascist sheet music, supposed that the Italian royal anthem was the correct thing...
...faces, bulging shiny foreheads . . . rolling chins, fat wrists . . . [these] women are one of the greatest comments on feminine emancipation ever made." Thus, recently, did a presumably emancipated Londoner write to the London Express describing the subjects of portraits by famed Dutch artists, portraits which had appeared in the Royal Academy's great exhibition of Dutch art (TIME...
Tall, fair-skinned, Earl D. Babst is the 59-year-old chairman of A. S. R. A., director of Great American Insurance Co., American Alliance Insurance Co., Massachusetts Fire & Marine Insurance Co., North Carolina Home Insurance Co., American National Fire Insurance Co., Great American Indemnity Co., Mt. Royal Insurance Co. of Montreal, The Chase National Bank. He has been eagerly active in affairs of Ohio's Kenyon College, and of the University of Michigan, which gave...