Word: alexandra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspaper report ignorantly inferred that Queen Mother Alexandra, wife of King Edward VII, had started a veil craze by allowing the publication of a photograph which shows her wearing a veil with her toque. Her Majesty has long worn a veil, as most good Victorians did, and has not infrequently been photographed in one. The new veils, continued the newspaper, are "of the harem variety, covering only the eyes." In point of fact, veils worn by harem ladies cover the face from the eyes downward...
...Hyde Park boomed. At Windrsor cannon roared salute and bells rang out right merrily through the day. Visitors flocked to Marlborough House to sign the guest book. Couriers-that is postmen and telegram lads-rushed with greetings. At Sandringham, surrounded by her royal relatives, the Queen Mother, Dowager Alexandra, passed a festive 80th birthday in the best of health and spirits...
...picture is worth 10,000 words" (at the present speed of transmission each picture is about the equivalent of 600 words-at 7c. a word, press rate, $42). Pictures of Oxford winning a relay race at Cambridge, of a steamship wreck on the Tweed River, of Queen Mother Alexandra, of Premier Stanley Baldwin, of Owen D. Young, of Ambassador Kellogg, of the Prince of Wales, were also transmitted. The man principally responsible for the new radiograph is Captain Richard H. Ranger, who devised the means of sending uniform impulses so that static does not annul the transmission. General...
Engaged. Miss Alexandra Stirling, of Atlanta, Ga., three times (1916, 1919, 1920) women's national (amateur) golf champion of the U. S., to one Dr. Wilbert G. Frasier of Ottawa, Canada...
Died. Lord Knollys, 87, onetime confidant to Queen Victoria; in London. He served the late King Edward as private secretary and filled the same office for King George, until age forced his retirement. He was a lifelong friend of the Queen Mother, Alexandra, now going on 80. Possessor of innumerable court secrets, he was mum as a headstone. A publisher sent him a blank check so that he could fix his own price for a book of reminiscences ; he tore up the check. In the days when Edward VII was a rollicking Prince of Wales, Knollys was often the butt...