Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prince George, as his car sped through London, was victim of a vicious skid, overturned. Nonchalant, His Royal Highness crawled from the wreck, straightened up, lit a cigaret, hailed a taxi...
...provinces of Canada, in the greater and lesser Antilles, in nine regions of South America, in Manhattan, Paris and Barcelona-the Royal Bank of Canada operates 884 branch offices. General Manager C. E. Neill was able to state last week than the bank's assets are $894,663,903, the largest ever reported by a Canadian bank and one of the largest ever reported. Bank headquarters are in Montreal. The president of the board of directors is Sir Herbert Samuel Holt...
...have delivered this lecture in the entire English speaking world, both the Royal Opera House in London and Madison Square Garden in New York were sold out when I talked there...
...extent that the latter have cancelled a farewell reception planned in the King's honor on his departure from Cairo. It seems that the conduct of King Amanullah during his visit to Cairo was not acceptable to them, and the cause of controversy seems to be the royal headgear. It is not that the King has overstepped the prerogatives of his crown, but rather that he has slighted them, and by so doing has injured their prestige. For the Ulemas are deseribed as religious leaders among the Moslems, and their sense of the fitness of things has been rudely jarred...
...that the traditions of Afghanistan are not lightly treated, that those past generations of Afghans may not have cause to turn over in their graves. The problem is a delicate one. "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown", but how much more precarious it is for a royal head that wears a white top hat when it should be a fez, or at least its "Afghan equivalent...