Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could have the rest. One of Judge Lindsey's minor assistants asked the precinct-tsar to "look after Ben out there," and paid him $25. The vote-counters counted the votes to make the answer come out right, and Judge Lindsey, among others, was elected. His opponent, one Royal R. Graham, died violently soon after, "and not of suicide," said his family. At Mrs. Graham's request the Supreme Court said none of the votes of Precinct 6 would be legally counted. That done, Judge Lindsey has no right to his post since, in a Republican landslide...
...Royal Highness may be said to have spent the week slumming. One morning he burst in upon five different families dwelling in the London County Council tenements at Wadsworth; caught mothers red-handed at their washtubs; made daughters scarlet-cheeked at his presence. Thence he visited the White House, a hostel for bums in Settle Street. Everywhere his cheery, infectious smile brought a roar of welcome from those many voices named collectively "The voice...
Meanwhile voices bereft of such Divinity, the voices of England's old aristocracy, spoke without mincing of His Royal Highness. They recalled the oft quoted sneer which he may or may not have uttered when his only sister, Princess Mary, married Viscount Lascelles (Feb. 28, 1922). Said Edward of Wales, reputedly, on that occasion: "Every day I get commoner and commoner, and every day Lascelles gets royaler and royaler." To Lord Lascelles and others of the landed peerage, the remark has seemed to have a backhand twist not inappropriate to Slummer Edward...
...present, with Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York on the way to Australia (TIME, Jan. 17 et seq.), the relations of Edward of Wales with his sister were reported less cordial last week than is usual when his undoubtedly charming sister-in-law, the Duchess, is in London. Elizabeth, Duchess of York, is, by now, quietly well-known for her ability to get Edward into a good humor at family gatherings -especially toward Princess Mary and her husband, punctilious Lord Lascelles...
...Simplon-Orient Express drew into Venice, newsgatherers watched to see if the royal salon car would remain coupled when the express puffed out toward Paris, toward Carol. Was a Crown Prince soon to cry, "Papa! Papa...