Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fascist Deputy Alfieri recounted the sterling qualities of the Crown Prince, said a fitting grant was necessary to keep up the royal traditions of the ancient House that was the pride of the Nation...
Sued for Divorce. Condé Nast, publisher and chief owner of Vogue, Vanity Fair, House and Garden, Royal, Children's Vogue, Vogue Pattern Book, by Clarisse Coudert Nast, daughter of Charles Coudert, member of the law firm of Coudert Bros., one of the oldest international law firms in the U. S.; in Paris. They have lived apart for some time...
...another fall, the traditional corollary of pride, might not misbecome the famed soprano, was also suggested by the press, which commented unfavorably on her irritability. In London, Covent Garden, prostituted all winter as a profitable cinema palace, a dance hall, opened its operatic season. Prince Henry sat in the Royal Box; U. S. Ambassador Houghton was there; Covent Garden regained its pride. The yearly deficits of the Covent Garden Opera Company have run as high as ?70,000. De Muro...
...parents, people of quality, decided that it would perhaps be more becoming if he turned professional. In 1911, at the age of 28, he made his debut in the Costanzi Theatre at Rome, created a sensation which won him a three-year contract with La Scala. Now the royal families of Italy and Spain attend his concerts. When asked by pressmen why he had never sung at the Metropolitan, the cork came out of his bottle. Said he: "Because they will not pay my price.* I can sing well. I know it. I won't pay to be heard...
...chief U. S. oracle on games of chance, furnishes convincing statistics. If you play poker, you may recognize yourself. If you cannot bear the game, it is at least valuable to know that there are 2,598,960 poker hands to an honest 52-card deck; that a royal straight flush can occur but once in 649,746 hands; that the parent stem of Poker is that ancient Persian pastime, As Nas. With the book come rules, advice against Greeks*, a set of chips...