Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clothing or for rock salt, lumps of which pass current as money in the interior, as do cartridges. The Empress and a few nobles enjoy the exotic luxury of corrugated iron roofs upon their "palaces." The Prince Regent has but to mutter a command and the groveling object of royal displeasure is led away to have his hands chopped off, his wrists dipped in boiling oil, his back flayed by a U. S. barbed wire lash. Everywhere the timeless usages of Ethiopia are interwoven stressfully with Occidental permeations. But, like potent and perfidious Albion, the Little Empire "muddles through...
...year 1327 the four French communes of Roquebillière, Belvédère, Saint-Martin-Vesubie and Lautosque became involved in a lawsuit over 16,000 acres of pasturage which their boundaries mutually adjoined. For 600 years the suit has prospered-while the Royal Houses of Valois, Orleans, Bourbon and Bonaparte rose, flourished and declined. Whole families of lawyers and litigants have been founded and have passed away. Recently the Court of Appeals at Aix rendered what it is hoped will be a final decision. By order of the Court the pasturage in question will be divided among...
...course, descended from the excessively blue-blooded Bourbon and Coburg stock. One of his great-grandfathers was Louis Philippe. The House of Windsor (originally Saxe-Coburg und Gotha) pulses with the same blood as his. His father, "Foxy Ferdinand," first Tsar of Bulgaria, "peer of Edward VII among royal diplomats," boldly declared the independence of the principality of Bulgaria in 1908, and proceeded to erect it with consummate skill into the present "little tsardom...
...this month, a detachment of Royal Alabarderos, guards, will lend color and protection to the $30,000,000 Spanish exhibit...
...Keys of the City. There might have been all these delights and many more if, one hot day last February on the Riviera, she had drunk a glass of brandy when Mlle. Lenglen drank one, and if an attack of appendicitis had not forced her to occupy the Royal Box instead of Court No. 1 at the recent festivities at Wimbledon. For the exclamation of the Panama really punctuated a cycle...