Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...majesty Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, Queen over the British Commonwealth of Nations, bent her knees and lifted her feet in dashing oldtime dances at Balmoral, royal Scottish home...
...gillies' (servants') ball given by the King and Queen to 300 tenants and employes on the royal estates in Scotland. Clasped by gardeners, game wardens, footmen, chefs, guests, Queen Mary reeled and pivoted in twelve of the 14 Highland flings, polkas and Circassian circles that were on the program...
...bright sunny Sunday morning, June 28, 1914, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, accompanied by his morganatic wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, drove down the streets of Sarajevo. Soon a bomb came hurtling through the air, crashing on the roadway behind the royal automobile, exploding with a deafening roar...
...Holman's prize was $10,000. Fifteen planes started. Richard E. Hud son and his mechanic, Jay Radike, were killed when their plane, struggling through ugly weather, crashed at Long Valley, N. J., a few hours after the start. Second place went to E. E. Ballough, onetime Royal Flying Corps (British) pilot, and Charles Dickenson, 69, "Santa Claus of the Air Mail." Said Mr. Dickenson, alighting; "Well, there weren't any mosquitoes up there." Flyer Holman's flying time from Long Island to Spokane was 16 hours...
...definitely ranked Venezuela as the third largest oil yielding country, exceeded only by the U. S. and Russia. The largest U. S. corporation working Venezuelan fields is the Lago Oil & Transport Co. (subsidiary of Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co.); larger than Lago is Venezuelan Oil Concessions Ltd. (subsidiary of Royal Dutch). Distance from Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, to U. S. Atlantic coast ports is 1,500 miles; from Tampico, Mexico, 1,900 miles...