Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Royal Highness Alfonso, Prince of the Asturias, Crown Prince of Spain, was declared last week to be an hemophile by Le Matin, one of the least sensational of Parisian dailies. Le Matin's assertion that Prince Alfonso is subject to uncontrollable hemorrhages, as was the late Tsarevitch Alexis of Russia, served merely to define the nature of an illness long known to exist. Among other of Prince Alfonso's royal traits is, of course, the hereditary pouting nether lip of the Bourbons...
...best; was presented with what the donors described as "the finest watch in the World" (smaller than a dime) by high seas representatives of the New York News Photographers' Association who snapped Her Majesty incessantly; visited the steerage and kissed there a Rumanian baby; laid her royal head each night on pillows embroidered with the Rumanian royal crest and motto: Nihil Sine Deo;* chewed gum when assured by one of her ladies-in-waiting, Mme. Prezepie, that in the U. S. it is considered a preventative against seasickness-learned that half a million dollars' worth of antique furniture...
...museum, "Maryhill" which provides the technical reason for her visit to the U. S. Seventy minutes after she landed at the Battery, Queen Marie and her party left Manhattan for Washington. On the way from the City Hall to the Pennsylvania Station the crowds became so unmanageable that the royal party was forced to enter the station by a side door and descend to the train in a freight elevator. A six-hour run brought Her Majesty to Washington where she was greeted at the station by Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg. Proceeding to the Rumanian Legation, Her Majesty...
...others acquiesced. Last week, in London, Artist Frank Brangwyn continued with his plans, imperturbed. From a U. S. revue appearing at the London Pavilion, he selected Negro show girls as the models for the panels he is designing for the War memorial of the House of Lords in the Royal Gallery. The sheen of ebony figures will appear on the panel representing the Maltese Islands in the series called the "Pageant of the Empire," which show the various racial types. Carpers were alarmed by suspicions of fierce negroid heads, gleaming black torsos, black limbs in primitive attitudes...
...When I returned to England from my 28,000-mile round trip flight to Australia I remarked, 'Aviation will make Australia [TIME, Oct. 11]. . . .In Australia it is possible to fly 365 days a year.' Now comes the Rev. Mr. C. Daniels-once a pilot in the Royal Air Force -whose parish in New South Wales is as extensive as all England, with a request that the Anglican Church Missionary Society buy him a plane to expedite his parish visits. His motor car too frequently stalls in mud. His camel is painfully slow. The Society will...