Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bond Street. Afterward he dined with Foreign Secretary and Mrs. Anthony Eden, then made such a night of it that next morning frantic Rumanian attaches went about bleating . "Our King is lost!" and only found him just in time to rush His Majesty aboard his special boat train. Dover Castle gave him a farewell 21-gun salute as he stepped aboard the British destroyer Montrose. Of the five kings attending the funeral only two, Carol of Rumania and Boris of Bulgaria, were ferried across the Channel on a British destroyer; in addition they both received the honor of an escort...
Before he and his companions swung aboard a boat train in London last week, prim-faced, bespectacled Hugh Ruttledge said to newshawks: "I believe we'll make it this time." He added thoughtfully, "With any reasonable weather...
Pinkham Notch, at the foot of Mount Washington, reports 44 inches of snow with 15 at the summit of Mount Washington. A weekend snow train will be runs by the Boston & Maine to Woodstock, Vermont. The Woodstock Outing Club is holding its annual meet. Stops will also be made at Lisbon, Littleton, and Lancester, where the snow is between 25 and 27 inches...
...Horrible Hohenzollern," buck-toothed King Carol II of Rumania, put his Jewish Mistress Magda Lupescu aboard his Royal Train at Bucharest and rattled off to Paris where Magda alighted and remained. His Majesty was brought to Dover on the British destroyer Montrose, received a 21-gun salute from Dover Cas tle, was met in London by the heir to the Throne, the Duke of York, and took up residence in the house of a sister of one time U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills. Her husband, the Irish Earl of Granard, was Master of the Horse to King...
...Special train after special train bearing Their Majesties, Their Excellencies, Their Royal Highnesses. Their Graces. Their Reverences, Lords and Ladies, Right Honorables and commoners of renown chuffed slowly toward Windsor on the last solemn journey of George V. who founded the House of Windsor. That deed stands imperishably in history with such monoliths as PLANTAGENET. The late King was born Saxe-Coburg-and-Gotha. Very unobtrusively in His Majesty's funeral escort this week moved His Royal Highness Leopold Charles Edward George Albert, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-and-Gotha in Germany, Prince Royal of Great Britain and Ireland...