Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning of the wedding, the linotyper, on his way home from work, paused amid the happy, shabby throngs. He answered a question, musingly: "I'm a good trade unionist and a Labor Party man, but the royal family means something. My father saw Victoria once, as close as you and me are now. Those two are getting married-they carry it on. I suppose it's having something steady in your life. And God knows there isn't much that's steady these days...
...Royal Pratfall. As the kings (5) and queens (6), ruling and retired, began to arrive, the royal family's eight-year austerity unbent. At a dance at Buckingham Palace, plump Princess Juliana of The Netherlands was dancing a conga with Elizabeth's uncle, the Duke of Gloucester. She slipped, and stayed down, while Harry of Gloucester tried to tug her up amid a moment of embarrassed silence...
...strolling about, smoking a cigarette in a holder. Princess Margaret came up. Bea, not wanting to curtsy while brandishing a cigarette, stuffed it and the holder into her dress front. At St. James's Palace earlier in the day, while a certain lady of title was viewing the royal wedding presents, the King came up to her and, with a very quizzical expression, said: "A lot of people must have had a lot of very nice things stored away for a very long time...
Another cockney called the palace "the poorhouse." Rebuked, he answered: "Why not, they're living on our charity, ain't they?" Any American who read malice or even envy into this would be not only wrong, but fiercely resented. The cockney wanted the royal family living just that way, and he wanted it the more fiercely as his "charity" pinched...
Life Chemicals. Sir Robert, 61, an ardent mountain climber and chess player, since 1945 president of Britain's ancient & honorable Royal Society, is an organic chemist whose forte is exploring the intricate compounds found in living organisms. He synthesized the delicate substances which color fruits and flowers. He put together artificial sex hormones more powerful than the natural ones. At present he and his chemist-wife Gertrude Maud, whom he met in a laboratory, are working on the production of synthetic penicillin. Organic chemists admire Sir Robert as a master of laboratory strategy. Biochemists honor him for pioneering...