Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duke, no miser, graciously accepted. Straightway the documents were brought forth, reclassified, found to contain a priceless series of contemporary royal decrees affecting Columbus, as well as a great portion of the correspondence between the great navigator and Queen Isabella...
...Government," and is leaning toward a republic with Reza Khan as President. The former version is supported by picturesque "details" to the effect that "the new Shah has ordered the price of bread reduced throughout the kingdom . . . proclaimed three holidays of rejoicing . . . [and] pensioned the former Shah and Royal Family...
...news of his forthcoming, formal entrance into society is taken very calmly. After looking in vain all over the front page, the royal clipping bureau has to content itself with a brief notice culled from among the news of debutante dances and stock reports. Unacquainted with modern psychology, this hopelessly old-fashioned Pharaoh bungled his entrance. His fame preceded his person and died so long ago that it is now even more ancient than himself. It is too bad they did not have expert publicity agents in old Egypt...
Britannia seems unable to appreciate the jest. Court gossips said, "The King and Queen have been highly displeased. Immediate changes are to be made in His Royal Highness' retinue...
With a few polished phrases, His Grace the Duke of Connaught unveiled at Hyde Park corner a vast squat howitzer of cut stone, London's War memorial to the Royal Artillery. As it loomed above the traffic that sweeps past St. George's Hospital, Britons felt a crinkly shiver along their spines. Four titanic bronze artillerymen give to the composition a gruesome air of stark reality, making the cold stone of the howitzer seem like colder steel...