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Word: covely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Day. In a big, maroon, convertible sedan with the top down and the bullet-proof windows up, the King & Queen, having greeted Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and notables at the dockside, were whisked up the winding road from Wolfe's Cove to the old city over a circuitous route past battlefields, through cobblestoned alleys and over bedecked streets to the Provincial House of Parliament. Over the route Quebec's 140,000 inhabitants stretched thinly but politely, regarding the King curiously, but whispering of the Queen: "Qu'elle est charmante?" "Qu'elle est chic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Royal Visit | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...four-day wait for the delayed royalty in Quebec. During those days they practically lived in the cool, dark, comfortable Terrace Club of the Château Frontenac, improving their dispositions with the mild distillates of the Dominion. When the Royal ship docked at Wolfe's Cove, the New York Herald Tribune's Edward Angly, the Times's Raymond Daniell and John MacCormac, the A. P.'s Frank H. King and U. P.'s Webb Miller appeared on the dock in morning coats and striped trousers. By the time the King and Queen reached Ottawa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Royal Press | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Died. Harold Irving Pratt, 62, financier whose father organized the original Standard Oil Co. with the original John D. Rockefeller; of pneumonia; in Glen Cove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...than any other U. S. businessman, is famed for his judgment of the capital market-he invariably picks the right moment to float bond issues. Last week, after 48 years with the Pennsylvania, he gave up railroading, planned henceforth to chop trees and roam the woods near his Christmas Cove, Me. home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Ex-Clerks | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Down the aisle dividing the men and women in the Matinecock Meeting House in Glen Cove. L. I. marched satin-gowned Florence Elizabeth Willits and Isaac Hicks Cocks. They sat down on a plain wooden bench facing 200 guests. For several minutes there was no sound in the ancient frame building. At length, when the spirit moved them, Florence Willits and Isaac Cocks rose and faced each other. The man took the girl's hand, declared he would take her for his wife. The girl repeated the pledge. Then they sat down. Thereupon everyone present signed a wedding certificate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Moving Spirit | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

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