Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shifting Tusks. But all was not well, for just behind the King a crisis was developing. Borne by two ebon attendants, the royal gifts-two huge elephant tusks-were pointed in opposite directions which is against all tusk-presentation protocol. Noticing their hideous faux pas at the last moment, each attendant shifted his tusk. They were still pointed in opposite directions. As King Pedro was about to turn to make his official presentation, the Pope noticed that a third shifting of the tusks was about to take place. He held the King's attention until both tusks were pointed...
...student until his eyes failed. He got a job as a roustabout, pushing barrels around the basement of the old Oriental Hotel at Manhattan Beach, and then he decided on the hotel business as a career. By the time he was 27, he was managing his first hotel (the Royal Muskoka Hotel, Muskoka Lakes, Canada). Before long he had hotel interests in half a dozen big cities and was part owner of Manhattan's old Waldorf-Astoria. By 1929, harddriving, handsome Innkeeper Boomer thought he knew just what people wanted in a hotel...
Eighty-five years ago, Schoolmistress Anna Leonowens (Anna and the King of Siam) went to Bangkok to spread the blessings of "the English language, science and literature" among members of the royal family. It was more than half a century later when young Dr. Niels Eskelund arrived in Siam from Denmark...
...white, gold and red, to hear Queen Victoria proclaimed first Empress of India. They rose to their feet as a flourish of trumpets announced the arrival, across 800 feet of red carpet, of His Excellency the Viceroy, Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Second Baron Lytton. The proclamation was read, the Royal Standard was hoisted, and artillery fired a grand salute of 101 salvos. Mixed bands played God Save the Queen, then trumpeted the blaring march from Tannhduser. Richly caparisoned elephants trumpeted too, and rushed wildly about with trunks erect when they heard the roll of musketry...
Died. Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon, 83, oldtime Royal Navy submarine expert, commander of World War I's famed Dover Patrol, which protected thousands of Allied soldiers from U-boats on the dangerous Channel crossing; in Romsey, Hampshire...