Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Staying in Washington as house guests of President and Mrs. Coolidge was Nicholas Murray Butler, A. B., M. A., Ph. D., LL. D. (from 17 universities), Litt. D., Jur. D., D. C. L., Commandeur de la Legion d'Honneur, Grand Officer of the same, Grand Officer of the Royal Order of the Redeemer (1st Class), Commander of Order of the Red Eagle, etc., etc., etc., President of Columbia University, Republican protagonist of Wets...
...coal miners and operators, to whom the Government granted a subsidy (TIME, Aug. 10) in order to avert a nation-wide strike. Since the subsidy expires May 1, 1926, and since neither miners nor operators have shown themselves willing to abide by the plan of settlement recommended by the Royal Coal Commission (TIME, March 22), the threat of industrial strife swirled darkly over England last week...
...gain fame and pelf thereby. Recently Artist Richard Jack, R. A., failed to persuade His Majesty to grant a sitting, but was graciously allowed the loan of a sword, a field marshal's uniform on which were pinned many orders, and a cape-all indisputably fresh from the royal wardrobe. Thus encouraged, Artist Jack slapped these accoutrements upon canvas in an attitude "regally erect," which was reported to "make the King seem unusually tall and commanding." Pleased, His Majesty inspected it last week, deigned to sit for his then wanting head...
From the native chieftains Il Benito received "the traditional royal gift, presents of unminted gold." Likewise a coal-black Arab stallion was presented to him-a splendid beast, covered with a red, white and silver cloth on which was embroidered: "To the Carrier of Water to Dry Lands...
British scientists look ahead. An eminent one ? the president of the Royal Anthropological Institute ? last week wrote to Dr. Ales Hrdlicka,* curator of physical anthropology in the National Museum (Washington, D. C.), to notify him that he had been honored with the Huxley Memorial Medal? for 1927 and would be expected in London a year from November to deliver the 1927 Huxley lecture before the Royal Anthropological Institute. No U.S. scientist save Professor William Zebina Ripley of Harvard (in 1908) had been so honored. It was recognition, gratifying indeed, of Dr. Hrdlicka's whole career, and in particular...