Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesties arrived at Victoria Station, London, to await M. le Président. Round about stood, like seeming giants, the Foot Guards in their enormous, tall, bearskin hats. On prancing coal black horses sat stiffly the Horse Guards, clad in white buckskin breeches and silver-plated body armor. Across the Royal Waiting Room and down the platform was spread a great crimson carpet...
...Majesty, standing there as the train puffed in, reflect perhaps how great has been the role of Chance in his life and in that of the French President? The gilded Royal Coach, and all the trappings of this King, even to the great lady who is his Queen, were destined originally for a man now dead, his elder brother, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence...
...excluded as "improperly dressed," because he was wearing only ordinary evening clothes, adorned simply with the orders of the Legion of Honor and the Bath. That was not enough. The invitations, by Royal command, called for the full dress uniform to which Lord Byng is entitled by his rank ?a uniform resplendent with scarlet and gold. . . . Court etiquette makes no exceptions. The baron cooled his heels without, while Lady Byng, "properly dressed," dined...
...clock. Professor C. H. Grandgent '83, will act as toastmaster, while the speakers will include Professor G. B. Weston '11, of the department of Romance Languages in the University. Dr. C. M. Underwood '05, one of the founders of the Circolo, and the Marquis Ferrante di Ruffano, Royal Italian Consul at Boston...
...Because, when he had become a rich man from his chemical discoveries, he had served the royalist government of guillotined Louis XVI, by improving methods of farming, by working on the metric system of measurements, and by simplifying the collection of royal taxes...