Word: royale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Mosconi is not, like his predecessor, a self made man or a titan of private finance. But he has served the new Feudal Duce with ready obedience as Prefect of Triest; and he was recently Royal Commissioner to the Venetian province ceded to Italy by Austria-Hungary, after the War-a province wherein the Mosconi were granted lands and certain Hungarian titles in the 16th Century...
Even a peevish King would have found it good to be back in Spain. Merry, spanking breezes stiffened the purple Royal Standard above Castle Magdalena, which signified the presence of comely Queen Victoria Eugenie with Royal Infantes† and Infantas on the seaside at smart Santander. Her Majesty, a granddaughter of Britain's late Queen Victoria, would be pleased to hear the gossip of her native Court, pleased too that King Alfonso had "seen his tailor" in Savile Row so successfully. The tall Infantas would sit upon their taller father's knees like little girls, playing with...
...ROYAL FAMILY-Entertaining glimpses at the family life of our foremost stage stars (TIME...
Warring companies, like warring nations, proclaim slogans, announce positions from which they will never, never recede. Last winter, when the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Co. (60% Dutch, 40% British) declared war on the Standard Oil Co. of N. Y., both contestants stated their cases promptly and publicly. For Dutch Shell, Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding shouted "stolen oil" across the ocean to N. Y. The retort was immediate: "The Standard Oil Co. of N. Y. . . . will carry out all contracts into which it has entered, and will not be swerved ... by desperate and destructive measures...
...sympathy. His Most Catholic Majesty, King Alfonso XIII of Spain last week honored Brothers Sosthenes and Hernand Behn, molders of International Tel. and Tel., which operates the Spanish telephones (TIME, April 2). Brothers Behn may now inscribe upon their visiting cards, if they like, this title: Commander of the Royal Order of Isabel the Catholic...