Word: viii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Previous shots of His Majesty had been so notably lugubrious as to start the rumor that "since his father's death, King Edward has never smiled." At least one British weekly took the new pictures last week as text to prove that "top-drawer" Britons decidedly bore Edward VIII, while he visibly expands in such company as that of Mrs. Simpson, "a real wisecracking American...
...Balkan holiday last week went about with Mrs. Simpson and his other guests taking pictures with a small German camera. Once when a police-man seized a camera from a press photographer who was snapping King Edward, His Majesty intervened. Taking the camera away from the policeman, Edward VIII handed it to the cameraman, saying with a grin, "Here, take your camera back." Trunks belonging to His Majesty were labeled inconspicuously with his incognito "Duke of Lancaster" but great capitals fully six inches high proclaimed the trunks of MRS. ERNEST SIMPSON...
...London the Admiralty announced that one of the two great capital ships to be laid down by Britain in 1937, the first since the War, will be named the King Edward VIII...
Before embarking on his yachting trip, England's Edward VIII had stopped in Salzburg, snapshot the land marks, heard no music. Elsa Maxwell, funster for the unimaginative rich, was there. So were Steelman Myron Taylor, Music Patron Harry Harkness Flagler, Mrs. Woolworth Donahue, Secretary of Labor Frances Perhins, Singers Ganna Walska and Feodor Chaliapin. Long before the season opened, 11,316 U. S. visitors had made hotel reservations, bought $200,000 worth of concert and opera tickets. Last week with the Salzburg season half over, hawkers were doing a thriving business in cushions for the hard Festspielhaus seats, trade...
...would hardly do for Greece to have another revolution just as her waters gave hospitality to yachting British King Edward VIII. Yet in Athens last week Greek King George II was conscious of revolution brewing. Soviet newsorgans were boasting openly that Moscow had just sent some $2,400,000 to aid the Reds of Spain, and the Reds of Greece had also begun to flourish. One night last week His Majesty was kept up late by the Greek Cabinet. The Premier, General John ("Little Moltke") Metaxas, has been frankly pro-German ever since he rated high as a young officer...