Word: boadicea
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...British Museum for analysis. The museum's experts were delighted; the coins, adorned with figures of horses and wild boars, were probably part of the hitherto hidden treasure of the fierce Iceni, an ancient British tribe, famed for their heroic but ill-fated revolt under Queen Boadicea against the Roman conquerors...
...Auxiliary Territorial Service. A large part of her new life was thus to be devoted to leading Britain's women-at-war, and the uniforms of these organizations were added to her wardrobe,* the first warlike garments to be worn by an English Queen since the days of Boadicea...
Back to his guns went the General to reply: "Bless your heart, Dorothy, my stuff isn't nearly as biased and inflammatory as yours. . . . Ever since Miss Thompson was rudely treated in Germany she . .. has been a breast-beating Boadicea urging us to flaming action. She sometimes seems to think that the issues of war are her and Hitler...
...number of volumes of plays, verses, and works dealing with Oriental art have been published by Mr. Binyon. Notable among these were the plays "The Young King," produced in 1924, and "Boadicea," produced...