Word: royalities
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...friend or two in her lovely upstairs sitting-room with the view where the glorious Washington Monument pierces the blue sky and the green shores of Virginia rise beyond the Potomac, or whether she stands in a gown of state of white-and-gold brocade, about to receive some royal visitor, the present mistress of the White House is always a real person-just as real, just as sincere, just as easily understandable, as was tiny Grace Goodhue in Vermont or older Grace Goodhue of the Burlington [Vt.] High School...
...John D. Rockefeller Jr., Arthur Brisbane, General and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Hugh Walpole, General Pershing, Leopold Stokowski and many another were invited to a reception in Her Majesty's honor at the Ritz, Manhattan. Of the 800 persons presented, a few kissed the royal hand and a few ran around to the end of the line after being presented and were presented again. Most shook hands with the Queen...
...Sesquicentennial the royal party attended a ballet performance by the troupe of the once tolerably notable Mile. Loie Fuller. The box was so located that Her Majesty could not see the stage. The Sesquicentennial Management announced ruefully that it had not been able to sell, the boxes at $55 each, as had been expected...
...England first established friendly relations with them in order to procure ports from which to raid the Spaniards, for her buccaneers. Oldman, after a visit to London, received a royal commission from Charles Stuart and ruled his people in nominal independence...
...royal palace of Jeremy at King-town was an old hut open on all sides and with a roof of palm leaves supported on sticks about 16 feet apart. His court with pirates and shipwrecked negroes, the Mosquito nation emerged a composite people to be reckoned with by European fury and a half of racial intermixture or gorgets of gold to relieve their paint-streaked. But after a con-consisted of two elderly wives, a son, and three daughters. Yet the astonishing fact remained that this barbarian wielded great power on the Caribbean...