Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Increase Mather, The Foremost American Puritan," by Kenneth B. Murdock '17, "Guminberg to Platini," by G. P. Winship '93, "Prints and Books: Informal Papers," by W. M. Iryins '01, "Harvard University Hymn Book," "What Evolution Is," by G. H. Parker '87, "Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth," by Cowpers Read '03, and "The Passports Printed by Benjamin Franklin at his Passy Press," by R. G. Adams and T. S. Livingston...
...Elizabeth, Duchess of York, lay thus abed, the Duke, second son to George V., R. I., awaited anxiously the opinion of Sir Henry Simpson, husband of famed actress Lena Ash well, and accoucheur to royalty. Sir Henry Simpson had previously allowed it to become noised about that the Duchess would not be delivered for another fortnight. When he stated last week, that the royal birth was imminent, and that "a certain form of treatment"* had been resorted to after, consultation with other physicians, excitement and anxiety were rife among Britons...
...Elizabeth II"? The cheering crowds in Bruton Street were by no means certain that they were not cheering their future sovereign. The royal babe, although she is the King's third grandchild, outranks His Majesty's two grandsons, the sons of Princess Mary. This baby will ascend the throne in the event that she outlives George V, Edward of Wales and her father-providing of course that the Prince of Wales dies without issue and that a son is not born to her father. She thus ranks, at present, third in the line of succession; and only three...
Despatches reported semi-officially that the infant will be christened Mary Victoria Elizabeth-after Queen Mary, Queen Victoria and her mother. To the throngs seething in Bruton Street occurred an inescapable question: "Will she ascend the throne as Elizabeth...
Despite the title, Queen Elizabeth appears but fitfully in the text?surrounded by a muster roll of courtiers with the subsequently decapitated Essex at the head. The reader is inclined to "retch" at the Queen's paint-plastered face, stinking breath and blackened teeth?since he is never made to feel the rich tide of power that swelled in Bess...