Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Today," wrote Brother Cleveland, "fraternity folk pretty much direct the affairs of the nation. The White House is 100 per cent. Greek letter, with President Coolidge flying the royal purple of Phi Gamma Delta and the First Lady of the Land wearing the arrow of Pi Beta Phi. Vice President Charles G. Dawes of Delta Upsilon guides the destiny of the U. S. Senate. Nicholas Longworth, of Zeta Psi, is in command of the House of Representatives...
...Moslem subjects, "The Peace of God." Accompanied by his Queen, Thuraya, "The Starry One," he is now completing a tour of the Occident (TIME, Jan. 23 et seq.) which has taken him on state visits to Rome, Paris, Berlin, London and several smaller Capitals. Last week the royal party, including Crown Prince Rhamatullah Khan and highest dignitaries of the Afghan State plunged from the Polish border into Russia aboard a new and sumptuous Soviet special train of 14 salon cars. The plunge was momentous because King Amanullah, whose Realm lies between India and Russia (see Map), holds the balance...
...Tsar. The Queen and the Ministress know that Comrade Kalinin is but a willing and placid figurehead, who serves to mask the activities of seclusive Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin. Characteristically the seldom-or-never-seen Dictator kept himself within the thick-walled Kremlin, last week, while the Royal Afghans were lodged just outside, in a sumptuous marble palace overlooking the Moskva River. Soviet press censors would take care that no word of secret conferences between King and Dictator should leak out until favorable results could be reported...
...negligible in a person of normal health. A pretense is kept up that the Prince of the Asturias is a "gentleman farmer" much interested in raising crops and breeding hogs; but most of his prolonged sojourns upon his estates are passed in pallid relaxation. Moreover, an inflammation of His Royal Highness' joints has set in of late...
Also BURLESQUE, THE QUEEN'S HUS BAND, THE ROYAL FAMILY, VOLPONE...