Word: royalities
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...plot of The Swan is not original. It tells of a beautiful (modern) princess in love with a handsome tutor; of a prince who would marry and make her his queen; of the ancient axiom that there is no royal road to happiness. Yet the very venerability of this plot in its application to the play betokens the master artificer. For only meticulous meditation long after one has left the playhouse discloses the deception. Such deception is admissible; indeed it is a privileged stratagem of genius...
...inches in a year by treatment with goat thyroid extract. A race of tall men may be bred. 2) Ethylene, the new anaesthetic (TIME, March 17) has been used in 907 cases in Chicago clinics, only one resulting fatally. 3) Sir William I. de Courcy Wheeler, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, was a special guest. 4) Dr. "Will" Mayo (TIME, May 19) was a prominent figure, as usual. He made an address summarizing surgical progress. 5) Dr. Albert J. Ochsner, of the University of Illinois and Augustana Hospital, Chicago, was installed at President, succeeding Dr. Harvey...
...William Randolph Hearst was received this morning by Queen Victoria in private audience in the intimacy of the royal apartments, an honor distinguished by its rarity...
...been especially honored since her arrival here, as this was her second visit to the Palace this week, the first being on Monday. ... The difference was that Monday it was a visit in State, Mrs. Hearst being brought to the Palace in the royal carriage surrounded by Guards of honor, while today Mrs. Hearst and Queen Victoria simply chatted intimately, as one woman with another...
King Haakon (Norway): " Prohibition agents were rumored to be sleuthing me. Members of my Royal entourage were darkly accused of smuggling French liquor into my Kingdom, contrary to its anti-alcoholic laws. My ambassador at Paris denied all such rumors and accusations...