Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ignored by the idlers, two sedans turned into the Prado and parked close to the Paseo de Marti branch of the Royal Bank of Canada. The porter was just opening the thick mahogany doors of the one-story limestone building...
...knew it, there he was with his family in "The House of Windsor," one of four giant dining halls serving 1,500 Butlineers each. Before Alf's week was up "The House of Windsor" would have become his alma mater, his particular allegiance against the other three royal houses (York, Gloucester, Kent). "Welcome, campers, to Windsor," loomed the loudspeaker. "Now let's all get to know each other right away. Introduce yourself to the camper on each side of you. Fine. Now to the camper across the table...
...days, with Mackenzie King watching every move, the resolutions committee hammered away at a party platform. The convention dodged such issues as inflation and Communism. To please the seven Maritime and western provinces, it plumped for a Royal Commission on freight rates. In an assertion of Canadian nationalism, it called for abolition of appeals to the Privy Council in London. It favored a defensive union with the U.S. and Western Europe. (Almost unnoticed, young Liberals slipped through a resolution amendment favoring "union security" and calling on the government to enforce the labor code. Snapped big, bumbling Labor Minister Humphrey Mitchell...
...measure up to his standards of liberty. "I was anti-Russian," he says, "even before it was fashionable to be anti-Russian." Astor worked in a Glasgow factory and a London bank before becoming a junior reporter on the Yorkshire Post. In 1945, demobbed as a captain in the Royal Marines (with the Croix de Guerre), Astor joined the family's Observer as foreign editor. He is a hard-working boss, on a first-name basis with most of his staffers...
Arthur Stringer's biography is the first major work on Brooke since the Memoir Sir Edward Marsh wrote to go with Brooke's collected poems in 1918. Canadian Poet Stringer had the use of a bundle of material on Brooke collected by the late Richard Halliburton (The Royal Road to Romance), who was lost at sea in 1939 before he could make it into a book. Though sometimes heavyhanded, Red Wine of Youth is neither too reticent nor too worshipful to present Brooke as a human being...