Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Awarded to the Freshman who passes the highest examination in elementary German at the mid-year examination, but who, not needing financial aid, is ineligible to compete for the Elizabeth Wilder Prize. The prize is a book suitably inscribed...
...Elizabeth Wilder Prize
Hugh Samuel Johnson printed in his Scripps-Howard column a letter he received from Mrs. Elizabeth Mead Johnson, 79, "a nice old lady in the Middle West." Excerpt...
Only 18 months after the death of her husband, King Albert, Dowager Queen Elizabeth heard the news in Naples where she was visiting her daughter, Crown Princess Marie Jose of Italy. Her first move was to accept heartbroken King Leopold's request that she take care of his three motherless children: Crown Prince Baudoin, 5, Princess Josephine, 7, Prince Albert, 14 months...
...already been lost by politics. Far more convincing than his analysis of her emotional development is his picture of Mary entering Scotland when it had already been lost to Catholicism, groping wildly for support in the first years of her reign, marrying Darnley in a confused effort to satisfy Elizabeth, turning from Darnley when she found that the marriage meant only greater uncertainty and weakness. Marrying Bothwell, whether for political or amorous reasons, she allied herself with the strongest military leader of the kingdom, sank into despondency when his ineffectually became clear. She threw herself on the mercy of Elizabeth...