Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Madrid. American Ambassador Ogden Hammond met Miss Elder and Pilot Haldeman at Getafe Airfield. Someone filled her arms with flowers. They lunched with the Royal Spanish Air Club; were visited at the Embassy by General Primo De Rivera, Dictator Premier; left by train for Bayonne, France, whence they would fly to Paris...
...Barbour is leaving the position of associate curator of the reptile and amphibian department, and has been a lecturer in zoology, and curator of the Harvard College Library. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical. Society in London, of the Royal Asiatic Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of many other foreign and American scientific societies...
...next reference to cards was in the accounts of the Royal treasurer of Charles VI of France in 1392, where an item appeared for three painted "jeux de carte" for His Majesty. The painter Grinogonneux was commissioned to paint these gorgeous cards, of which there are examples at the Library...
...Duke of Connaught has never been a popular figure, even in the Commonwealth. He is much too reserved for that. He has not been popular in the Army. His acid wit prevented that. The measure of publicity, which the remainder of the royal family have never been able to eschew, although they hate it as cordially as does the Duke, he has been able to avoid...
...Since King Ferdinands death," Her Majesty went on, "Ileana had never left my side. . . . Her earnest sense of duty and love for me are a guarantee that she will always be the pride of her country and the royal family...