Word: bareheadedness
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Reassuring Farewell. The great city which would be her capital awaited the new Queen's arrival in stunned silence. "I've never seen Piccadilly Circus so quiet," said a London doorman. Only four months ago, King George's people had worried through his terrible operation and his...
Next day the Queen herself arrived at London's airport. Winston Churchill had urged Londoners to stay away, and a mere handful of reporters and officials were there to greet her. A black coat hiding her greyish-blue dress (she had taken a black dress with her, but there...
Though no rebel, young Philip occasionally fretted at the guide-strings. In Lausanne, while standing behind some intent card-playing senators, he "snipped the strings of their breeches" and clipped their flowing wigs to their chairs. Then he cried "Fire!" and the senators sprang up bareheaded and bare-bottomed.
As a starter, Harry Truman last week jumped on a train and rode up to the Army's proving ground at Aberdeen, Md. There, wearing a plastic raincoat against a fine driving rain, he stood bareheaded as guns boomed his 21-gun salute, splashed through puddles to inspect the...
Another copy of TIME was kicking around the 27th Regiment headquarters at Chindong the day Osborne was there. It was a rough day. The 27th and elements of one other regiment were trying to hold the line until the marines arrived. Colonel John H. ("Mike") Michaelis called for an air...