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...taxi to Sweden's Royal Palace last week drove Mr. & Mrs. Sinclair Lewis. The Lord High Chamberlain, Baron Rude-beck, and the First Lady in Waiting, Countess Lewenhaupt led them into an antechamber abuzz with guests. After a pause a silver trumpet sounded. Gustaf V, King of Sweden and of the Goths and Wends entered escorting Princess Ingeborg (his brother Carl's wife, the King of Denmark's sister), followed by the rest of the Royal Family. All Ladies of the Court were in black, for Queen Victoria of Sweden (No. 1 patient of best-selling Memoir-Writer Dr. Axel...
...rotating schedule policy looms ominous in the under-graduate mind. The result of long standing intercollegiate rivalry is to give certain games a permanent place on the schedule. It is not altogether comfortable to have to realize that a rotating policy remains somewhere in the background as a potential rude interruption to the natural course of events...
...Argentine Republic has awakened from sleep. ... A rude awakening was necessary for the nation to recover its lofty ideals. . . . The inflexible purpose of [my] government is the upholding of reciprocal international interests, the traditional friendship with all other countries in the world, and brotherhood with the nations in America...
Rogue Herries is a tale of 18th Century Cumberland. Hero Francis Herries rake, skeptic, violent-tempered, takes his family from the comforts of Doncaster to a rude, half-savage life in his ancestral home at Rosthwaite in the Cumberland lake country. His stupid wife irritates him; to irritate her he brings along his current mistress. Soon he is known, feared, disliked by the whole countryside. The troubles of '45 (invasion of England by the Young Pretender) hardly touch him, though he and his son are in Carlisle when the town falls to Prince Charles Edward's Highlanders...