Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Incredible orgies ensued amid mountains of cakes and bonbons. Later a Punch and July show created a diversion while further supplies of food were hurriedly requisitioned. As night fell, M. le President tottered to his rest. The children, questioned by correspondents, opined that he had given them a royal holiday...
...Madrid el Rey Alfonso XIII embraced that genial Pittsburgher, Alexander Pollock Moore, U. S. Ambassador to Spain, devoted husband of the late Lillian Russell. Mr. Moore, who is said to address Alfonso as "Chief" and the Duke of Alba as "Jimmy," had just officially informed his royal friend that he was about to resign as Ambassador and return...
...they whirled home through the underground, the purchasers of this rare pennyworth perused a little story, in the now familiar vein, which described the adventures of a boy with the kings, queens and knaves of a pack of cards. In the end all the royal cards are burnt, and this denouement seemed commonplace enough to most of the stolid Londoners. Here and there, however, there was one who remembered that...
...been patrons of Hans Andersen. Hence Fabulist Andersen's friends warned him that the publication of the story might brand him as disloyal to the new reigning house. Ever easily frightened, he cautiously suppressed the manuscript, which was only recently unearthed by Herr Julius Clausen of the Royal Library at Copenhagen...
Friends of Andersen have alleged that on at least one occasion his wit came to the rescue of his timidity where royalty was concerned. Frederik VII, grandson of Andersen's original benefactor, Frederik VI, challenged the aged fabulist to a drinking bout. He accepted, but bribed a royal servitor to fill the silver cup passed to him with water. Some hours later, Frederik, by then in no mood to be trifled with, detected the fraud. '"Cheat! Will you pledge your King in water...