Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guards of the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin resisted the entrance of a mob led by the Countess Markievicz. She opened her purse, drew out a pistol, shot the guard dead, and continued to lead a faction of the great Republican demonstration staged in Dublin throughout the notorious "Black Easter Week...
Instead of bringing the trophy home, "Bawby" gracefully asked the Royal and Ancient Gowf Club, of which he was last year made a life member, to "mind" it for him. But Scotsmen were pleased to think that the trophy's ultimate destination was, if "Bawby" could come over again next year, about as sure...
...that gesture was a slap, last week's was a fisticuff. The Soviets last week granted to Standard Oil interests right to sell Russian oil for which British companies, notably Royal Dutch-Shell, had long been striving. The Standard Oil rights included: 1) two years' monopoly of selling Russian oil in Egypt; 2) 500,000 tons of raw naphtha for sale in Mediterranean countries; 3) 500,000 tons of fuel oil for Standard Oil ship filling stations at Constantinople, Port Said and Colombo; 4) six years' rights to get oil for its tanker fleet from Russian Naphtha...
...Buckingham Palace whirled the twice royal cavalcade. Portly Ahmed Fuad was soon shown into a suite in what is technically known as "Wing V." There the Egyptian Great Chamberlain marshalled Ahmed Fuad's numerous attendants?not the least of these being a chemist to test his food, a taster to sample it, and two of George V's physicians skilled in antidotes...
Eight schoolboys from Kent, Conn. (TIME, Feb. 28), beginning their invasion of England, were pitted against eight veterans of the Thames Rowing Club, in the first heat of the Grand Challenge Cup Race of the Royal Henley Regatta on the Thames last week. It was a magnificent duel. Kent had the weight advantage and youth. The Thames Club had years of experience. Stroke for stroke, the two shells raced over three-quarters of the course. Then Kent nosed ahead. Jack Beresford quickly raised the stroke in the Thames Club boat. By a quarter of a length, the Thames Club...