Word: corgi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rows of potatoes and pulled them all up to see how they were doing. While Elizabeth fondled her ponies and puppies, Margaret made pets of a salamander and a speckled toad. When Elizabeth won a certificate for lifesaving, Margaret had her day: she heaved her sister's pet Corgi into the pond on the day of a Buckingham Palace garden party and dived in after him, triumphant and heroic in her best party dress...
Jackson's associates in TIME-LIFE International are hoping that his experience with a Corgi motorbike, given him by its manufacturer, will not be too typical of forthcoming British-American trade relationships. Jackson took the 65-pound bike (a civilian model of that used by paratroops during the war) out for his first spin, skidded in some loose gravel, fractured his left foot. Rather, they like to dwell on the gift which Jackson received from another enthusiastic Britisher, the morning after his speech at the British Consumer Goods meeting - a case of Scotch whiskey (now selling...
...excitement, the press dropped a few aitches. It was not sure whether Elizabeth took one dog or two on the honeymoon, whether the pet was a Welsh Corgi named Crackers, or Susan, or (according to one slip) just a dog named Corgi...
Queen Elizabeth had a ringing week. It began when Metropolitan Opera Star Marjorie Lawrence sang for her at Buckingham Palace and Princess Elizabeth's dog Crackers (a Corgi) barked during a Carmen aria (excitement, explained the Queen). Then the bells of St. Paul's paid tribute, for the first time since the start of the war, to the Queen's birthday (her 45th...
...Princess Elizabeth is said to be the only heir to the British Throne who ever studied U. S. history, last week was plugging through the late Lord Bryce's standard work The American Commonwealth. She has dropped the study of German, taken up Spanish. Both moppets and their Corgi terrier, Jane, have gone on wartime rations, both collect tinfoil, roll bandages, knit socks for Tommy Atkins. Elizabeth contributes from her savings to the Red Cross, Girl Guides, Air Ambulance Fund, buys National War Savings Bonds which are beyond the penny means of her little sister...