Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During a "run" on the Royal Bank of Canada, at Havana, occasioned by false and malicious rumors, President Gerardo Machadey Morales of Cuba fought his way through the crowd and into the bank with an immense wad of notes in one hand. Arrived at the deserted window marked "Receiving," the President counted out $100,000 with the greatest possible ostentation and deposited that sum. In a twinkling the "run" stopped...
Carol, who is one of the best royal racing drivers in Europe, replied in perfect English...
...golden coaches jolted past crowds which would have cried "Long live Mr. Ogden Haggerty Hammond!" if they had known his name. Behind trotted a squadron of the royal cavalry...
...Plaza Del Almeria, the courtyard of the Royal Palace, a regiment of the Madras Hussars of Pavia was drawn up in honor of the Ambassador. Count Velle conducted him within. There Alphonso received him with the majesty of a sovereign, with the handclasp of a good fellow...
...undated, but from internal evidence, it is clear that it belongs to the years 1795-98, the years just before Coleridge's great period. It consists of an amazing mass of jottings long and short, extracts from Coleridge's reading in travels, histories, the philosophical transactions of the Royal Society, books on optics, and so on, usually with no indication of where the references come from. It contains lists of subjects for poems and articles most of them never written, as well as personal memoranda...