Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quip facetiously and without precedent. The president's audience, numbering some 1,500 distinguished scientists, twittered and tittered with ap- preciation-for the president was Edward of Wales. His speech, though about nothing* in particular, was so much more amusing than that delivered in 1859 by the last royal president of the B. A. A. S. -"Dear Albert,"† Prince Consort of Queen Victoria! After all, mused many a scientist, is not Edward, spontaneous sponsor of such vivid fashions as green leather coats, more admirable than his ramrod-backed great-grandpapa, creator of that appalling garment, the "Prince Albert...
...Were informed that the Royal Commission appointed last year to investigate India currency and exchange has recommended the establishment of the rupee on a gold standard basis...
...apologies!" said Albert, King of Belgians, and let in the royal clutch, "you did right to stop me. Mais je suis un peu en retard. I must hurry. I am late for work. Au revoir...
Belgian editors, lauding this new evidence of royal democracy, pointed proudly to the royal garage last week. There His Majesty's three sleek, Belgian-made Minervas have stood without aspirating so much as a drop of gasoline since the King, as Dictator (TIME, July 26), demanded national economy to save the Belgian franc...
...sentimental raconteuse, but the historical reconstructions are superb-Playwright Sheridan scratching his wig for the fourth act of The School for Scandal; George III and Queen Charlotte reading their favorite divines under the lindens at Kew; and Perdita, fluffed in swan's-down, waiting for the flushed royal moron who brought her low; Perdita, at last a wanton, having her final fling in a tiffany petticoat at the mildly curious court of Marie Antoinette. Danger's Lover...