Word: consort
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 30 years ago sleek, bandboxical "Dapper Don" Collins began looting telephone boxes, soon graduated to blackmail, stock swindles, fraud, rumrunning. By the garish '20s he had a yacht, rolls of thousand-dollar bills, a long police record, a beauteous consort (Helen Patterson Heywood, who divorced her husband for him). Last week, friendless, feeble, finished, 59-year-old Dapper Don went to Sing Sing to serve 15 to 30 years. His crime: a piddling swindle. Said he: "I've been around, but today I'm just an old reprobate...
...surface and has 500,000,000 subjects, would probably have been the envy of that ambitious little monarch Henry VIII. The luckless, unpopular Stuarts would have grown green with jealousy had they been able to witness the crowds which last week cheered as King George and his consort, Queen Elizabeth, drove in state from London's stately Buckingham Palace to drab Waterloo Station, there to catch a special boat train for Portsmouth. Almost any of Britain's past crowned heads would have admired the scene at Portsmouth...
...broke the almost rural silence of Tirana, the small capital perched in the mountains of the tiny Kingdom of Albania. Boom followed boom until 101 had shaken the sleeping town. A son and heir had just been born to King Zog I and his Hungarian-American consort, Queen Geraldine. The man-child was named Skander after the great Albanian patriot who in the 15th Century stood off the Turks during some 30 years of hard fighting...
...Atrocious," gasped Queen Victoria of The Times. "Wicked," clucked the Prince Consort. "Insolent," sniffed Mr. Gladstone. Lord John Russell wrote to Lord Clarendon: ". . . If England is ever to be England again, this vile tyranny of The Times must...
Beside the consul and his consort, soon there were living at the comfortable Hughes-Hallett establishment in Detroit's Indian Village, three white rats named Mehitabel, Ermyntrude and Sonia; a special brown-and-black-spotted rat called