Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...person hazed was His Royal Highness, Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York, now in Australia to open next week the new Federal Capital, Canberra (TIME, April 18). The Duke, second son of the King-Emperor, had just received an honorary degree from the University of Melbourne, when dental students of that institution swarmed up and offered to "welcome" him into their Students' Club. His Royal Highness, necessarily complacent, submitted to "ragging" as follows...
...Duke's private motor car, bearing his emblem and crest, was seized and driven through the streets, while the unsuspecting populace cheered two students dressed as the Duke and Duchess of York, then froze with horror as the "Royal Pair" thumbed their noses...
Both men, the citizenry decided, were admirable fellows. Therefore, crowds cheered Edward of Wales when he arrived from London to visit the Spanish Royal Family; and still greater crowds throated lustily when Nicanor Villalta, slayer of 800 bulls, returned from Mexico, bearing that chief prize of the American bull ring, a bauble known as "The Golden Ears of Mexico...
...painful for a live and squirming lobster to be immersed suddenly in boiling water. So decided the members of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, after careful consideration, in London a fortnight ago. They protested to restaurateurs against this barbaric treatment of the inarticulate lobster; sought to discover a more humane method of killing...
...must be difficult indeed for a prince to know what is expected of him now that, fashions in royal etiquette have become in places altered and in places done away with altogether. A few slips may not today be sufficient cause for a declaration of war, but they leave a bad impression in the public, mind which, though it has in many cases ceased to regard kings practically, still attaches a measure of sanctity to their persons. It is to be feared that the Prince's informality of costume, unprincely disinterest in Spanish ladies, and undiplomatic refusal to attend...