Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Highness the Duchess of York, only daughter-in-law of Their Majesties, was last week announced to be for the second time with child...
When the Royal babe is born the sex will be officially verified and announced by onetime cotton spinner John Robert Clynes, now Home Secretary in the Labor Government, whose friends were already beginning last week to twit...
...last week a row of red pins on the smoking room map marked the slow progress of the S. S. Kenilworth Castle, chief passenger Edward Windsor, down the Western bulge of Africa. High, traditional horseplay erupted when the red pins reached the Equator...
...last week's pageant he returned to his own sex. As barber he vigorously plied lather brush and wooden razor on the faces of Equator neophytes before toppling them into the canvas tank erected on the Kenilworth Castle's deck. In the midst of the ruckus little Wendy Tuke, eight-weeks-old baby, was brought to the barber's chair. Nervous passengers crowded forward, wondering whether baby Tuke was to be shaved and ducked with the others. Barber Wales contented himself with sprinkling a little soapy water on Baby Tuke's puckered face, conferring...
...served in the East and West Indies, in the Mediterranean, Africa, China. In 1901 he was Navigating Lieutenant of the vessel which carried King George and Queen Mary (then Duke and Duchess of York) round Britain's colonies. Though it has no connection with last week's marine horseplay, he is a Companion of the Bath...