Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found her garter slipping, in the merry, ardent days of Edward III (1312-77). Down and down slipped the garter until it tumbled before the knowing eyes of a pack of smirking courtiers. But Edward III, with instant chivalry, stooped, retrieved the ribbon, tied it just below his own royal knee, and exclaimed to the Courtiers in immortal reproof: "Honi soit qui mal y pense!" (Evil be to him who evil thinks...
Other funny plays: THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY, THE QUEEN'S HUSBAND, THE ROYAL FAMILY, OUR BETTERS...
Meanwhile thousands of Milanese, touched by His Majesty's bravery and tenderness, had gathered in a packed and wildly cheering throng before the Royal Palace. When King Vittorio Emanuele finally slipped out upon a balcony and saluted, the ovation rose like the roar of sea surf, wave on wave. Again and again His Majesty saluted, but more than half an hour passed before the cheers died down sufficiently for him to retire within...
...injuries sustained in an automobile accident. His father, the Earl of Athlone, is Governor-General of the Union of South Africa. As everyone knows, the Queen and her brother, the Earl of Athlone, were of the Teck Teutonic ducal house of the Kingdom of Württemberg; but by royal British Decree of July 14, 1917, the name of the British house of Teck was changed to Cambridge...
...Story. Offspring of a Mogul prince, Temugin is born clutching in his royal fistlet a clot of congealed blood. Astrologers and soothsayers thereupon agree that by the blood of his enemies the child is destined to bring many peoples under his rule...