Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after the first World War, Dr. Walter Johnstone Williams, dentist and British consul in Papeete, Tahiti, acquired the atoll of Tetiaroa . . . Dr. Williams was the only dentist in Papeete for years, and he did quite a business-considering the Polynesians' love for "glitter-work" in their mouths . The royal Pomare family fell in debt to Dr. Williams for gold fillings . . . so they gave him Tetiaroa to clear up the bill...
...exception. Less than 48 hours before he was to lead off the discussion, Lester ("Mike") Pearson, Secretary of State for External Affairs, was still in New York, at the United Nations meeting. On his way back to Ottawa he stopped off for the opening of Toronto's Royal Winter Fair. He came into Ottawa on a morning train, having written part of his speech en route; he put the finishing touches to it only a few minutes before Parliament opened...
...busy week of social whirling for Britain's royal family. One evening Princess Margaret took 24 friends nightclubbing (see Music). On another evening King George, Queen Elizabeth and their two daughters went to the movies: a special performance of That Forsyte Woman at the Odeon, about which 5,000 celebrity hunters swirled and gawked. On an evening at home (Buckingham Palace), the King and Queen gave a little party (250 guests) for Princess Elizabeth before she flew to Malta to spend her second wedding anniversary with Prince Philip, who is on duty with the fleet. The band...
...personal. On his way to make a movie in England, Robert Taylor found two bobby-soxers under his stateroom bed on the Mauretania. As a fledgling of 21, making his first tour, William Holden suffered hotel-room invasions by voracious women. In 1946, at London's first Royal Film Performance, a Hollywood contingent headed by Ray Milland touched off a mob scene that sent three fans to the hospital and 100 to first-aid stations...
...tale about high-society high jinks in an imaginary British health resort where the salubrious climate assures salacious longevity. The sexy heroine is a brisk 120 years old. ¶ The Flower Beneath the Foot (1923) tells of the unrequited love of a French girl for a royal prince (addressed as "His Weariness"). It is set in an orchidaceous never-never land of languor and burning kisses, and contains the memorable exclamation (made, of course, by a female character): "If I live to be forty, it was a moment I shall never forget." ¶ Prancing Nigger (1925), which...