Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unassailable respectability. ("You can get off any time you like for a lodge meeting.") Its grand titles satisfy a yearning for rank and prestige. "I am among other things," said a degree-draped Elgin, Ill. photographer, "a Noble of the Shrine, a member of the Council of Royal and Select Masters of the York Rite, a Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret, a Knight of the East and West, a Knight of the Brazen Serpent and a Knight of the Sword. Sometimes when I go home late at night crocked and my wife raises hell, I tell her that...
...Scottish Rite, (Northern or Southern Jurisdiction, depending on the location of his lodge) and up through the degrees. He will be dubbed along the way Grand Master Architect, Prince of the Tabernacle, Grand Inspector Inquisitor Commander, etc. At the 32nd degree he is a Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret:** Or he can work up through the York Rite with fewer degrees but just as much prestige, to the top grade of Knight Templar. Or he can learn both rites. He does not necessarily emerge a better man than his Blue Lodge brother; he merely becomes a more erudite Mason...
...Inside the Shrine is still another playground, the Royal Order of Jesters. Membership is by invitation only...
Bradshaw finished the 72 holes in 283 strokes to tie South Africa's heavy-jowled Bobby Locke and force a playoff. Next day, Bradshaw took a 12-stroke trouncing from precision-putter Locke, who fired a 67 and 68 over the Royal St. George's course. Locke collected $1,200 for his victory. Harry Bradshaw could have used the money too, but then the story about the broken bottle would have lost its edge...
...Fence Me In. Foes of the beard have been sniping at it for thousands of years, heaping it with vulgarity and ridicule. When, says Reynolds, mustachioed Czar Peter the Great rebuked a Western ambassador for being effeminately clean-shaven, the envoy pertly retorted: "Had my royal master measured wisdom by the beard, he would have sent a goat." Peter, who had a marked tendency to kowtow before degenerate Western ways, was so impressed by this remark that he levied a tax on all Russian beards...