Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gown of silver tissue, entered the Throne Room. The band struck up God Save the King. Their Majesties stopped; upon the conclusion of the anthem, His Majesty made a curt nod of acknowledgment and took his place with the Queen upon the throne dais. Members of the Royal Family and numerous officials and attendants took up their allotted...
...King, accompanied by Queen Mary and Prince Henry, drove in semi-state to "the city" followed by a troop of the Royal Household Cavalry. At the Temple Bar, the Lord Mayor met their Majesties, surrendered to the King the keys of the City and the emblematic pearl sword of privileges. The royal party drove on to Leadenhall Street, where the King alighted from his carriage, smote a stone with a mallet, tested the stone's lie with a spirit-level, declared it "well and truly laid." The occasion was the laying of the foundation stone of a new building...
Albert, King of the Belgians, gave an audience in the Royal Palace to a group of Rotarians, headed by Everett W. Hill of Oklahoma City, Okla., President of the International Association of Rotary Clubs, which met at Brussels...
...commissioned to make a monument for Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris. He furnished a "symbolic figure." The Prefecture of Police and the cemetery authorities interfered- hung a large bronze fig leaf on the statue. A few nights later, when Epstein was sitting in the Cafe Royal, a student marched in wearing the bronze fig leaf around his neck. He made a statue Venus, "an arrangement of planes and curves," also heroic -10 or 12 ft. high. It was exhibited in the Leicester Galleries, London, and for weeks people gathered in front of it and roared with laughter...
Died. Mrs. Louisa Baldwin, 80, mother of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin; in Worcestershire. She was one of the four daughters of the Rev. George B. Macdonald. Alice married J. Lockwood Kipling, was the mother of Rudyard Kipling. Agnes married Sir Edward Paynter, onetime (1896-1919) President of the Royal Academy. Georgiana became Lady Burne-Jones, wife of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, famed painter...