Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hope was back from a royal command performance in London with the classiest imaginable keepsake for his actor's-scrapbook: a nice picture of Hope hobnobbing with fascinated royal chums around a book of Hollywood autographs, including Hope...
...full to bursting, so much so that when a puzzled visitor asked where the servants slept, my father answered that he didn't know, but supposed it was in the trees." There were only two bathtubs in the house, both in his parents' rooms. The royal youngsters took their weekly tubs in the nursery and, as they grew up, in their tiny bedrooms...
...first article takes the young Prince through the Royal Naval College at Osborne (he had trouble with math) and to Dartmouth ("I ... even sang in the choir"). It closes in good serial form: with his grandfather on his deathbed, as the curtain came down on the Edwardian...
...Holland's largest corporations is the Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., a $440,000,000 concern. An estimated one-fifth of its stock, or $45,000,000 worth, is held by U.S. investors, who, like the Dutch stockholders, have first option to buy any new shares issued. Last week the company announced a whopping new $114,000,000 stock issue. But the Dutch government, by means of new currency controls, virtually froze U.S. investors...
...delicate baby-blue eyes veiled with beautiful false eyelashes. After long training by a small, red-haired boy (Ted Donaldson) and interminable praying by a pious terrier, Big Red wins the big race just in time to save the old homestead from the sheriff. Best bit: a gory battle royal between the stallion and a jolly black bear, which delegates all the infighting to a stand-in from the taxidermist...