Word: royale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Astronomer Royal, Sir Frank Watson Dyson, intimated that the most numerous classes of visitors to historic Greenwich Observatory and its famed Time Meridian are now the Germans and the Japanese, both provided with copious, well thumbed guide books. Recently a Spaniard hastened in, ignored the Meridian, asked to be allowed to view nearby London through one of the small observation telescopes provided for that purpose. After peering earnestly at this dome and that spire for more than an hour, the Spaniard said: "I am on my way from Spain to Iceland, and my ship stops in London harbor for only...
...sufficient cause for Royal qualms was the Newfoundland Parliamentary Election of last week. Swept out of power was Conservative Prime Minister Frederick Alderdice; and swept in was Liberal Sir Richard Anderson Squires. The "Liberality" of Sir Richard is such that his principal henchman, Sir William Ford Coaker, has said...
...sledge hammer, pulled trigger, shot the youth dead. Cooler policemen rounded up the tattered mob men and then discovered to their horror that they were disguised Royalist followers of famed Leon Daudet, son of the great novelist Alphonse Daudet, stubborn and wrongheaded champion of Roman Catholicism and the Royal House of France. The Pope has excommunicated Leon Daudet and his followers (TIME, April 9). Their cause is irretrievably lost on all counts; but still they struggle quixotically on-and are covertly approved and supported by many a rich and Roman Catholic royalist...
Rumania has been ruled by Tycoons of the Bratiano family since the foundation of the Kingdom (1881). The Royal Family has merely reigned-a family of puppets-despite the petty intrigues of Queen Marie. Therefore the Kingdom was shaken in its deepest political foundations, last week, when the last of the Tycoons, Vintila Bratiano, was forced to resign as Prime Minister...
...situation cannot be grasped without harking back a year to the Prime Ministry of Vintila Bratiano's late brother, the great Jon Bratiano. He it was who daringly altered the Royal succession and placed upon the Throne a baby King, Mihai I (TIME, Aug. 1, 1927). This stroke of statecraft was designed to maintain the power of the Tycoons unchallenged until the baby king grew up. To make doubly sure, Jon Bratiano set up a Regency of two old men and a youth, all denounced by the Parliamentary Opposition as puppets...