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Word: elizabeth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...LIFE OF ANNE BOLEYNe secret wedding with Anne, the legalization of the situation and so through the birth of Elizabeth, Anne's decline in favor and finally to her tragic end in the Tower of London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NEW BOOK: A Queen's Mother | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

...that would marry her off in the approved fashion of historical drama. Mary undertook the play, as she expressed it, to save herself from "being strangled in her own curls." More dramatic than usual, she has several powerful scenes with Clare Eames, who plays her favorite role of Queen Elizabeth with versatile sinuosity, as one born to make history. A resplendent cast help to make this Mary's best picture, culled from the novel by Charles Major, current standby whenever an array of costumes on the screen is hooked together into a drama. It sags a little at first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 19, 1924 | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

Huan Tung, boy Emperor of China- took to precedent-busting, favorite sport of democratically inclined monarchs. Huan Tung, aged 18, loves to be called plain " Henry" and his beautiful consort is named Elizabeth. Apparently these names were chosen because of Henry's fondness for Henry VIII of England and Elizabeth's admiration for the English Queen of that name. He is supposed to stay inside the Forbidden City and no outsider is supposed to enter therein to disturb the peace of the "Son of Heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Henry the Democrat | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

...second offense was when Henry and Elizabeth left the Palace to have tea with the Emperor's English tutor, Reginald Fleming. Many foreigners were present and Henry "was in his element," speaking English to them. Elizabeth was accompanied by Miss Isabel Ingram, graduate of Wellesley, her American tutor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Henry the Democrat | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

Married. Miss Elizabeth Gordon Hanna, granddaughter of the late Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna of Ohio, to Richard Porter Davidson of Georgetown, Del.; at Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 12, 1924 | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

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