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Word: buckingham (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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King George VI celebrated his 49th birthday? by giving the first dance at Buckingham Palace since World War II began?a birthday ball with 100 invited guests and the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, attending their first ball in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 25, 1944 | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...clugere, condoro, and string players of the Browne and Nichols School, Buckingham School, and Longy School of Music will present a carol service tomorrow afternoon at 5:30 o'clock in the Fogg Art Museum, Miss Lorraine-Warner will direct the program, while G. Wallace Woodworth, associate professor of Music and director of the Glee Club, accompanies on the organ, and Willie Pay on the plane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schools to Sing Noel Carols In Fogg Museum Tomorrow | 12/22/1944 | See Source »

Quezon, who once planned to costume the attendants at his Philippine mansion like Buckingham Palace guards, went to his grave in somber splendor. All night, after its return to Washington in a dark baggage car, his body lay in state before the flower-banked altar of St. Matthew's Cathedral off fashionable Connecticut Avenue. White-gloved soldiers stood impassively with rifles grounded as crowds filed past. People of Filipino descent, great men of the U.S. and plain Americans came, paused, passed on, hour after hour. The next morning General Marshall, Admiral King, Interior Secretary Ickes, Senators and Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drums for a President | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...take full politi cal advantage of his position as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces, perhaps from a strategy conference in London. In London the iron railings in front of the American Embassy are getting a fresh coat of paint and gold trimmings, fancywork denied even to Buckingham Palace since 1939. Said Painter Joby Plumb: "This 'ere gilt paint, it's worth houses. Ain't seen none like this for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Almost | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...Carpet. "I decided to see how far I'd get as a reporter. The first step was to look up Buckingham Palace in the telephone book and call Whitehall 4832. When I got His Majesty's press agent representative on the wire, instead of saying to him 'Hey Butch, how about a squint at the big shot?' I had to call him Sir Eric and couch my request in Sunday language.* It worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Sir Eric and the Five Inches | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

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