Word: tweedsmuir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alastair Francis Buchan, 21, and John Buchcm, 27, Oxford-bred sons of Canada's Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan); respectively as a Princess Louise's Dragoon Guard, a Governor-General's Footguard...
After this function the King and Queen retired to the Citadel apartment surrendered to them by Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir, who is benched while the King is in Canada. There the King changed from his Admiral's rig to cutaway and silk topper (the Queen not bothering to change) for the first of a long & indigestible series of official luncheons and dinners. This one, at the Château Frontenac, served up lobster tails, grilled breast of chicken and a Grand Marnier soufflé which neither the King nor the Queen accepted. This instance of royal distaste...
...Royal train was met by Lord Tweedsmuir and his Lady, an escort of Princess Louise Dragoons in scarlet tunics and brass hats, and a landau with two postillions and two footmen-something dug out and refurbished from the Governor General's livery stable. A London-like overcast cloaked the scene, and from the Houses of Parliament sounded a bell that looked and rang like...
...first speech. Towns along the St. Lawrence heaped bonfires, decked railway stations. At Callander, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe got his morning coat out of mothballs and the Dionne quintuplets practiced pretty curtsies in preparation for their trip to Toronto to meet King George and Queen Elizabeth. Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir (Author John Buchan) collected a library for Their Majesties, books on Canadian life, political works and novels, including a mystery called Blood Royal...
...Sacred Curia, 15 U. S. Archbishops, 25 Bishops of Ireland, 244 Chicago pastors, 600-odd curates and nuns of Chicago; more than 1,500 top AFL, CIO, and independent union leaders; F. D. R. and Eleanor, Bernard Shaw, Warden Lawes, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Stalin, Marion Davies, Lord Tweedsmuir, The Anglican Archbishop of Canter bury, de Valera, Harry Bridges, James Joyce, Mayors Kelly, Hague and LaGuardia, Robert M. Hutchins, the Sure Shot Exterminating...