Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen Elizabeth in forget-me-not blue, his two excited little daughters. Elizabeth & Margaret Rose, in strawberry pink coats. Louis Stewart Gumley, Edinburgh's Lord Provost stepped forward, tendered the city's keys to King George on a red satin cushion, bade him welcome to his "ancient and hereditary kingdom of Scotland...
Millvale's murals were especially satisfying to the artist because they were his first big job in the U. S. and they were done for his countrymen. Born in Zagreb, ancient capital of Croatia, Maximilian Vanka grew up with peasants, did not discover until he was a young man that he was an illegitimate son of a noble family. As a fachook (noble bastard) young Maximilian belonged to a well-recognized caste in Croatia under the gay regime of Austria's Emperor Franz Joseph. His upper-class connections enabled him to study art at the Royal Academy...
...that year's Maguey she donned a skintight dress that fitted down under her heels, striped to look like a Mexican century-plant. Ben Stad called on her to dance the slow-moving steps of the Middle Ages at his Philadelphia Festival of the Society of the Ancient Instruments last spring...
...story on the ''Potomac Mystery" (TIME. June 14) TIME erred twice. S.S. District of Columbia is not "ancient," is not a "side-wheeler...
...years has there been a male heir to the Dutch Crown. Should Prince Consort Bernhard ("Benno") prove to have sired a manchild, Netherlanders will be wild with joy. Meanwhile the impecunious German princely family of Prince Consort Benno, the ancient House of Lippe-Detmold, are having some of their debts discreetly taken care of. It was learned that hawk-nosed Netherlands Premier Dr. Hendrikus Colijn recently made a quiet visit to Lippe-Detmold in Germany, made creditors happy to the tune of some...