Word: royalities
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...royal face, small, round and rosy, peeped from a window in the stern facade of Buckingham Palace one morning last week. Out the palace gate was clattering a coach of gilt and glass. Above it the three golden genii of England, Scotland and Ireland supported replicas of the Crown, the Sceptre, the Sword of State and the emblems of knighthood. Within the coach rode awfully the King-Emperor and the Queen-Empress...
...around themselves, sat up and simpered at Edward of Wales. He, restless, hurried on to visit half a dozen East End dives. At one a sailor, elated with rum, seized Edward's not very strong right hand and pumped it for minutes-shouting "Hold on Prince!" whenever His Royal Highness tried to draw away. At last an equerry hit the fellow a shrewd tap, rescued Edward...
...Royal House of Braganza-Coburg was deposed in the person of King Manoel II. He now resides at Twickenham, near London, on his pleasant estate, Fulwell Park...
...Royal S. Copeland is the only doctor* in the Senate. One day last week he was urgently summoned. His black hair waving, he ran down to the barber shop. There, anxious barbers stood about a chair. In the chair he found his Democratic friend, Senator Andrieus Aristieus Jones of New Mexico, white and immobile. "An attack" spluttered a barber. Seeing no couch in the shop, Doctor-Senator Copeland told the barbers to lay Senator Jones on the floor. He despatched the bootblack for whiskey and had a barber telephone for Rear Admiral Grayson.* The bootblack quickly returned with several containers...
...devoted to the introduction, the development, the exposition, the climax and the conclusion of a Saturday Evening Post story, and duplicated it with a different setting, slightly different characters, and a touch more of spice, submitted the resulting confection, and received a check immediately. Knoblock has found the same royal road to riches...