Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vile Landlubber. But around the presidential party, the ship hummed with excitement. Everybody got ready for the traditional ceremony of "crossing the line," a rite in which oldtimers take savage pleasure in initiating "pollywogs" (sailors who have not crossed the equator before) into King Neptune's "Royal Order of Shellbacks." The 350 shellbacks aboard busied themselves fashioning clubs out of canvas stuffed with rags, constructing a throne for Neptune, a ducking pool and other devices of torment for his victims...
Died. Alice Frederica Edmondstone Keppel, eightyish, last of the late Edward VII's girl friends after long illness; in Florence, Italy. Mrs. Keppel settled easily into the pleasure-loving royal household; no objections were heard from either the Hon. George Keppel (third son of the Earl of Albemarle) or Queen Alexandra, who at the end graciously asked Alice to sit by Edward's deathbed...
...farm credit, and another to return to silver coinage, a move that would help the mining industry. His best piece of news had been written into the address at the last minute: after a nine-year controversy, Mexico had finally settled the oil expropriation row with Britain. For Royal Dutch Shell's subsidiary, the El Águila Petroleum Co., Mexico would pay $81,250,000 over the next 15 years, plus 3% interest...
...titles (seven of which have appeared on movie marquees): Lost Horizon, The Phantom Filly, Home Sweet Homicide, To Have and to Hold, Junior Miss, Random Harvest, Lad: a Dog, Wuthering Heights, Steele of the Royal Mounted, The Border Trumpet...
...gravitation. 'I don't believe in a personal God,' says another, 'but I do believe we are all parts of one great Being which moves and works through us all'-not noticing that he has merely exchanged the image of a fatherly and royal-looking man for the image of some widely extended gas or fluid...