Word: yards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austria, and they all gave the Duke quiet, steady-eyed refusals. His personal private secretary of 15 years, Sir Godfrey Thomas, an astute Welshman with a standing (and perhaps a future) in the British diplomatic service, simply "vanished." His personal bodyguard, Chief Inspector David Storier, vainly tried at Scotland Yard to get let off from guarding the Duke of Windsor. Both Mrs. Simpson and the Duke separately tried to retain the services of Chauffeur George Stanley Ladbrooke (who last winter persuaded the King to buy Buicks, although Mrs. Simpson had originally wanted Packards), but Chauffeur Ladbrooke had had enough...
...Castle, Kent, rushed to Macclesfield (neckties) to be "thrown" (twisted for proper thread thickness), then to Braintree to be boiled and dyed the correct shade of imperial purple. The fabric is woven on medieval looms by an enthusiastic, slim-fingered girl named Lily Lee, at the rate of three yards per week. By last week Lily Lee had woven 42 yards, one yard more than enough for the three royal robes...
Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania's favorite daughter Princess Ileana, wife of a Habsburg archduke with a castle less than 25 miles from that in which "Boysy" is staying (see p. 15), this week invited Mrs. Simpson to visit her in Austria. The last Scotland Yard detectives assigned to Mrs. Simpson had just cleared out of Cannes. With bagfuls of threatening letters arriving by each post Mrs. Simpson urgently asked that her five French Government Secret Service guards be not withdrawn. They gallantly reassured her that they were staying, and, as the Lord-in-Waiting had left...
...Madrid in 1912 the French proprietor of a motorcycle shop owned a French biplane which he crashed during an exhibition. Chagrined, he dumped the wreckage in his back yard. To chubby, 17-year-old Juan de la Cierva and two cronies, this was tempting bait. They offered to rebuild the plane if the Frenchman would test-fly it. Laughingly he agreed. All that was salvageable were the motor and wheels. All the resources the three boys had were $60 and a knowledge of arithmetic. Nonetheless, to Madrid's amazement, their jerry-built contraption flew. It was the first Spanish...
...close of the party, clothing collected by the Committee in their recent canvass of the Yard dormitories was distributed to the children...