Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bucharest, last week, brought rash Publicist Filipescu to a filthy cell in the common jail. Awaiting trial for lèse-majesté he stoutly said: "I will not withdraw one word!" His defense, he added, would be that his article is not ''an attack on the Royal Family," as the Crown Prosecutor charges, but instead is a patriotic rebuke to the Rumanian statesman who allowed Her Majesty to go abroad and gallivant...
...always has been. At exactly high tide, six graceful white boats were launched at Southwark Bridge: two for the King, two for the Vintners, two for the Dyers. Most impressive were the King's rowboats. From their sterns hung large white standards bearing the crown and royal cipher. At their prows were small red and white "swan flags." Two Swanherds in scarlet coats rowed each boat. At the tiller of each sat a Swanmaster. whose duty it was to steer and watch for swans. Vintners' and Dyers' skiffs carried the banners of their guilds at the stern...
When the country where the swans do live is finally reached then comes the catching and marking of the cygnets, no mean task as anyone can discover by rowing a boat around a pond in pursuit of a small duck. Royal swans are left unmarked. Dyers' swans have one nick cut in their bills, Vintners' swans two nicks. The task is made no easier by the fact that parent swans are extremely aggressive. They can bite and they can kick. They can buffet with their bony wings hard enough to break a man's arm. Yet they...
Personages with influence caught Bremen-fever, caught the Bremen too. Personages: U. S. Senator Royal Samuel Copeland; Peter Finley "Mr. Dooley" Dunne; Mr. & Mrs. Gustave A. Heckscher; Soprano Frieda Hempel; Editor George Horace Lorimer of the Saturday Evening Post ("merely...
...Prince was so pleased he had Painter Chandor do him again, with arms folded, reflective, in his study at St. James's Palace. Also in 1921, his first year out of art school, Painter Chandor had his portrait of Sir Edward Marshall Hall "on the line" at the Royal Academy...