Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...footsteps. The barometer was 28.84. At 1 a.m. the wind blew 65 miles an hour. The barometer was 28.00. At 5:40 a.m. a screaming, slashing demoniacal 130-mile gale raged wilfully, lustily, triumphantly. The barometer was 27.75 (lowest ever recorded in the U. S.). Pelicans, gulls, petrels, royal terns swept in helplessly, crazily, were dashed against walls into broken lumps. The waters of the ocean on one side and of the Bay of Biscayne on the other swept over Bayshore Drive, met. People drowned like trapped puppies to the frivolous dirge of tinkling glass...
None the less Publisher Mitre attributed the suppression of the mutiny very largely to the King's dash by motor in six hours from San Sebastian to Madrid where he lent the support of royal prestige to the drastic acts of Primo de Rivera in suppressing the mutiny...
...There have been many royal rides famed in verse and story but never one to compare with this mad dash through the darkness...
...There was no hesitation. The fastest royal automobile was ordered out with the greatest secrecy and about two o'clock, when all but a few in the palace were asleep, the car rolled out of the palace courtyard with the King himself at the wheel accompanied by the Duke of Miranda and a chauffeur...
...brow. "I've not worn darned socks for years-I buy the very cheapest and whenever I see a hole in the toe, I throw them into the wastepaper basket." "You'll never do that again as long as you live," says Perella. Whereupon, the Fiat with royal purple flying whisks them off to Paris...