Word: elders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ears for the queen's words of approval. "It's too hot in here for those girls," said Queen Mary. "I'll send round an electric fan tomorrow." Next day the fan arrived. In an age marked by universal uncertainty on moral questions, Britain's elder Queen is plagued by few if any doubts. She is as certain of the rectitude of her position as she is of the rectitude of the empire she represents. At an Empire Exhibition in 1938, Queen Mary watched a small boy perusing a globe on which Britain's possessions...
Throughout India there is widespread administrative corruption and bumbling, especially in the provinces. Nepotism, an ancient Oriental custom, reaches everywhere ; as an example in the highest place, the Prime Minister's critics point to the elevation of his elder sister, Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, first to the ambassadorship in Moscow, then in Washington...
...nine, William Claude Dukinfield conceived a passion for juggling. In the Philadelphia stable where the family vegetable cart was stored, he practiced earnestly with oranges and lemons. But the elder Dukinfield took a dark view of his son's ambition, and once he went as far as to tan him for bruising a lemon. Incensed beyond containment, William climbed aloft in the stable one day and dropped a large box on his father's head. Then he left home, never to return...
...Washington, Dr. Herman Baruch (younger brother of elder statesman Bernie), whose resignation as U.S. ambassador to The Netherlands was recently accepted, explained why he had chucked diplomacy. At 77, he said, he simply could not bring himself to face another one of those clammy Dutch winters...
Next came Robert's elder brother...