Word: bethnal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lady in Lavender. In the last two decades of her life, Queen Mary's subjects had come to revere in her the traits which they had so coolly regarded in her youth. They appreciated her downrightness: "It is perfectly clear to me," she told the abashed mayor of Bethnal Green, "that when I visit the poor districts, I am taken mainly by the highways and not the byways." They enjoyed making kindly fun of her indomitable, unchanging hats. They smiled at her reluctance to compromise with such "novelties" as telephones and airplanes. They were pleased to hear that...