Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...celebrated her official 31st birthday (she was born on April 21, 1926, but British monarchs are feted in June, when the weather is good) by reviewing the Irish Guards at the annual Trooping of the Color. The same day she announced her birthday honors list. New peers: Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank, Sir Horace Evans, the Queen's physician, and Lieut. General Sir Willoughy Norrie. Geoffrey Crowther, editor emeritus of the prestigious weekly The Economist, and Oxford's Isaiah Berlin were knighted, and peppery old (78) Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham became a Companion of Honour...
...first, to a melody by Joseph Haydn. A few years later the words were fitted to Sir Arthur Sullivan's now famous tune, St. Gertrude...
...Arthur L. Goodhart, U.S.-born professor of jurisprudence and master of University College, Oxford University LL.D...
...Arthur Krock, longtime New York...
...Arthur H. Compton. Nobel Laureate in physics Sc.D...