Word: royale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...model and a boy are mincing a lazy minuet while a company of softly shining young ladies and gents look on. This unselfconscious little idyll pleased Frederick the Great, Francophile King of Prussia, and he had his ambassador buy it. Until 1918 it hung in the collection of the royal family at Potsdam. Clevelander Beaumont got it through Dealer Joseph Duveen...
Dawn Patrol (Warner Bros.). Fortunately for cinemaddicts, as Hollywood finds it increasingly hard to say new things, it says the old ones increasingly well. This picture certainly gives no new account of the Royal Flying Corps. Its members fly "canvas coffins," drink "to the next man to die," and grimly say "Right!" when they mean "Wrong!" just as they have been doing in the movies ever since the first Dawn Patrol was made eight years ago. Nonetheless, by the time Captain Courtney (Errol Flynn) and Lieutenant Scott (David Niven) have shared their last toast and their last battle, audiences...
Having tired of one short jail sentence after another, Painter Grammens recently announced an armistice of sorts: no more daubing on official buildings, but plenty of attention to such private undertakings as shops, hotels, garage owners, doctors. Meanwhile, the Belgium Royal Commission on Names and Dialects made haste to appease M. Grammens and all Flemish nationalists. Announced last week was a change of name for hundreds of Belgian towns and villages. Samples: Leuven for Louvain, Ieper for Ypres, Brugge for Bruges, Kortrijk for Courtrai...
When ointment containing male sex hormones is rubbed into the comb of a capon, the listless, bedraggled cock gradually turns into a lusty, strutting rooster. Reason; the hormones are absorbed into his bloodstream. When Dr. George L. Foss of the Royal Infirmary at Bristol, England learned that this direct application of hormones to a capon's comb is 200 times more effective than injections, he decided last summer to try it on impotent...
...Voilà, a Paris weekly that specializes in nude pictures and pornographic reporting. Mr. Gingrich said he could not get permission to print the real name of Author "Burckhardt," who was reported by Ken's Paris agents to be "something of a dilettante who hobnobs with the royal bunch...