Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boyish grin and wispy figure of Edward of Wales are so familiar in London dance halls and saloons (TIME, Feb. 7, 21), that when he motored out to Hastings, Sussex, last week, past fields of primroses all in saffron bloom, Britons wondered if His Royal Highness would not tread a measure with some buxom Sussex wench along a merry primrose path. Soon he contrived to exceed all expectations. . . . Wenches were, of course, not lacking. Hardly a "pub" in Hastings is without its ruddy Sussex barmaid. Had Edward of Wales but stopped in to dash himself against a whiskey and soda...
...civil servants mostly slept at hotels after their 429-mile trip from Melbourne. Like barnyard fowls unused to migrating, which have suddenly been shooed from one coop into another, the employes of the Commonwealth of Australia were cackling many a minor protest last week; but the approach of a royal personage stilled all complaints...
...Royal Highness, if the imperial schedule is not disturbed, will arrive at the Parliament Building on May 9 in one of the ten British Crossley cars at his official disposal in Australia. Before an assembled throng he will stand with Dame Nellie Melba, 68, "greatest Australian," who will lead a mighty singing of "God Save the King." Soon the Duke will step within, open Parliament, signalize that the world has a new Great Capital...
Before King-Emperor George V, waiting at Buckingham Palace last week, went 100 erudite men to retell, rhetorically, the world's obligations to Baron Joseph Lister, born just 100 years before, dead but 15 years. Said Sir Ernest Rutherford, President of the Royal Society: "It may well be doubted whether the scientific activities of any other man achieved as much for the saving of human life and the prevention and relief of the physical sufferings which afflict mankind...
Died. Ornato Succu, 35, Sardinia's last brigand chief, killer of more than 60 men; by a shot from the Royal Italian Police, near Sassari, Sardinia...