Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tangy whitecaps snickered and huge rollers boomed sea-mirth, last week, as H. M. S. Renown hove to off Las Palmas in the Canary Islands and the Duke and Duchess of York prepared to land amid a heavy sea in the frail royal motor barge...
Good sports, Their Royal Highnesses laughingly took a thorough sousing. A tennis party followed on shore, then tea at which the Duke plucked a ripe orange from a nearby tree and ate it, remarking at the stinging taste experienced on biting into ripe orange peel Finally the royal party were sprayed again as they put-putted two miles out to the Renown which promptly up-anchored for the Panama Canal and Australia (TIME...
...this gayety, there occurred the Vienna première of Intermezzo, newest opera by Richard Strauss. He, its composer, has lately been unkind to Vienna. Only last month, he refused to conduct the Viennese Opera unless the government granted him a huge salary, complete autocratic powers, a once royal palace for the duration of his life-this at a time when the Viennese are living on rations. But Vienna could not do without him. He alone could be the central jewel of a reconstructed crown...
...color is good and his lips are a healthy red" Senator Royal S. Copeland, of President Coolidge...
Unfortunately for the Archduke, marriage in general and royal marriages in particular are no longer what they used to be in the days of his several times great grandfather. Charles V who, by merely choosing the right pair of parents, netted himself a christening gift of half the world. It is all the fashion in these times for Queens as well as other women to go about with the twelve pound look firmly pressed upon their still not unlovely faces. Hence to marry a lady of title or riches is no longer a passport to a life of honor...