Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anthropology than art and who would rather converse about the ordinary enjoyments of life than about the technique of portrait work was revealed to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday during the course of an interview with Augustus E. John, famous English portrait painter who was recently elected to the Royal Academy and who is now in Boston doing a portrait of Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts...
Baron von Stael-Holstein was the first foreigner ever admitted to the carefully guarded precincts of the Imperial palace of Peking. The court in which the collection was housed was the home of certain Dowager Empresses and of those concubines who had lost the royal favor...
...state, lily in hand, while the band played a dirge and newsmen who had boasted about having dress clothes with them paraded in cutaways and silk toppers. Then, neck and hands in stocks, he was led before the judges (his parents) and made to kiss the Royal Baby (a thuglike gob clutching a gallon bottle of milk and an electrified wand). A royal bootlegger administered a stoup of vinegar & pepper from a whiskey bottle. Then Son Allan was lathered with lampblack, shaved with a wooden razor, dumped into a tank of water and beaten down a gauntlet with cotton clubs...
...incredibly slender ship, darting with splendid speed toward Aden, the Red Sea, Suez. A literate seagull might have spelled out upon the vessel's spume flecked prow the name H. M. S. Enterprise. Aboard and often on the bridge was a young man who is called by his Royal family simply "David." As he paced the bridge, engines of 80,000 horsepower thrust the frail 7,600-ton cruiser across the placid Indian Ocean at automobile speed: 40 m.p.h. Only a seaplane could have sped faster, yet the distance of 6,000 miles seemed illimitable, mocking. Perhaps the young...
Plebeian hogs have no figures. Plebeian hogs are squat, short-legged, roly-poly, fat. But blue-ribbon hogs are slender, graceful, meaty. Reason, as revealed at the American Royal Live Stock Show (Kansas City), last week, by able Swine Inspector E. Z. Russell of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture...