Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Absurdly simple! One either rings up one's broker or steps round to the Royal Exchange itself. Ignoring that justly celebrated mural Phoenicians Bartering with the Ancient Britons in Cornwall, one presses straight on and finds a board where election futures were quoted, last week...
Last week's figures on the Royal Exchange were all the more significant because they represented a sudden fall of 20 points within a fortnight in the quotations on Conservatives. These 20 points-20 prospective seats in the House of Commons-were subtracted by the brokers on 'Change from a previous Conservative quotation of 292 and were added to the then prevailing Liberal figure of 62. Thus the shrewd merchants of London's "City" showed what they fear will be the effect of Mr. Lloyd George's recent phenomenally daring Liberal keynote speech (TIME, March...
From the first day of his illness Marshal Foch demanded and received from all his doctors the minutest account of what was to be fought and how. Unlike His Majesty George V, who did not bring himself to chew and swallow solid food while his royal appetite was in abeyance (TIME, Jan. 14), the Generalissimo continued, even last week to eat with a precision which his doctors declared absolutely astounding in a patient thus far gone...
...royal wedding seems ever quite complete without a bomb, and a bomb there was, last week, for Crown Prince Olaf of Norway and his bride, Sweden's grave and lovely Princess Martha. In placing such royal nuptial dynamite-this time a whole kilogram-the usual thing is to plant it in the storied castle where the Prince and Princess expect to make their home. Therefore, last week experienced Norwegian police searched and searched every nook and cranny in and about Castle Oskarshal, until they found and nullified the nuptial bomb...
Smart international yachting folk who have sailed up the pine-fringed Kristiania Fjord to the capital of Norway, Oslo, will remember Castle Oskarshal. As they cast anchor off the Royal Yacht Club, in the wimpling Frognerkilen, they had Oslo on their starboard and suburban Bygdo, with its Castle Oskarshal, on their port...