Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...infant sons, at Goldsborough Hall, Yorkshire. "Does Her Majesty expect an infant?" queried humble newsgatherers. "Her Majesty," retorted lofty courtiers, "will entertain at Buckingham Palace from January to June her granddaughter, (TIME, May 3) the Princess Elizabeth (aged, at present, nearly four months.) During that period their royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of York, (parents of Elizabeth, "the baby who is always smiling") will journey to Australia on the cruiser Renown and there inaugurate the new Australian Capital, Canberra...
...paunchy Samuel Hill, millionaire husband of Mary, daughter of the late rail magnate, James J. Hill. Sam Hill, candid, reputedly confessed to Seattle pressmen last week that he built Maryhill, his estate on the Columbia River, "just to entertain a king or queen in," that he has been stalking royal guests ever since...
...Their Royal Highnesses, Albert and Elizabeth, Duke and Duchess of York, son and daughter-in-law to George V, likewise attended last week at Swansea, were initiated into the Gorsedd (Order) of Bards without being obliged to swim or sing...
Pulling themselves together after the inimitable opening speech of their royal president, smooth Edward of Wales, the august members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting last week in Oxford, deployed about the town to attend various section meetings, where marvel after scientific marvel was related demonstrated or predicted. Evolution. Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn of Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History, was there as a guest to expatiate upon the enormous difference between Evolution as it is understood today and as it was debated in Oxford half a century ago by Darwin...
...Cobham, his hand wrung red with congratulations, regaled officials with the story of his 10,000-mile flight from England in 36 days. Crossing Arabia, he had flown low over the desert when "Crack!" a Bedouin sniper had shot his mechanic stone dead. At Basra, Sergeant Ward of the Royal Air Force had volunteered-the listeners' eyes shifted to a beet-red, grinning stalwart beside Pilot Cobham-and together they had whirred high over the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, drifting slightly out of their course and bringing up in the Dutch East Indies There, on the island called...