Word: royalities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Their Most Catholic Majesties continued merrily last week their informal visit to London, (TIME, July 12) took no part in the local Court mummery. (See COMMONWEALTH, "Royal Week...
Polo. Alfonso XIII, 40, probably the only living sovereign young enough to ride a pirouetting polo pony, played back, one afternoon, for the polo team of the 65th Lancers against the 7th Hussars. With a potent swipe of the royal mallet he split a polo ball both halves of which rolled over the goal line. By that goal the Lancers...
...three score years and one packed his bags last week and journeyed in to London. One more honor was to be thrust upon him. Once more he must don garments in which he seems a bent and spectacled waiter whose mustaches droop. When he should stand up before the Royal Society of Literature to receive its gold medal, many a critical eye would be upon him. Dean Inge would certainly make some acidulous remark next day. Lord Darling might crack a senile quip upon the spot. And Louis Raemaekers would be there. His broad Dutch pencil might well produce...
...Royal Week The spizzz - spizz of atomizers was heard in Buckingham Palace. Bandy-legged lackeys scurried through the musty state apartments, squeezing little bulbs, spraying clouds of "Court Perfume." Soon the tropical fragrance of this secretly compounded essence expanded and dispersed itself. All was in readiness for Their Majesties Third Court of the present season. The Queen-Empress, seated before her dressing table, pondered the advisability of adding the Koh-i-nor to her already diamond-bespangled toilet. She may have reflected that the Koh-i-nor weighs only 106 1/16 carats. She perhaps yearned secretly...
...corrected Aristotle's method of examining nature, instituting a "new organon" of inductive logic-accumulating facts, theorizing later. He destroyed a great number of scholastic "Idols" by his penetrating inquiries and was hailed even by Frenchmen, who dedicated their great Encyclopedia to him just as Englishmen founded the Royal Society (1660) in his name when he was long dead. His suggestions were carried out broadly by his secretary, Hobbes; in inductive psychology by Locke; in utilitarian economics by Bentham. Baruch Spinoza (1632-77). No sooner had Bacon fathered a school of objective scientists in England than Descartes of France...