Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Festival, a good Nazi undertaking, is now in its sixth year. It has simply taken over Shakespeare, ignoring Salzburg and the Reinhardt tradition. Heidelberg has a Shakespeare tradition of its own: one of the castle's towers was built by Frederick V as a theatre for his wife Elizabeth (daughter of England's James I), and there Shakespeare's plays were presented in his own lifetime, before the rest of Europe knew his name...
...most people who know their English history, Queen Caroline means the unhappy spouse of George IV. But George II's Caroline of Ansbach was, between Elizabeth and Victoria, England's ablest queen. Last fortnight her almost forgotten career was brought to light again by an English matron, in a biography that is a deft combination of scholarship and good storytelling...
CHARLES D. HORNIG Elizabeth...
Last week the price of wheat dropped on the Liverpool exchange to the lowest figure on record. At 47¼? it slipped under the 50? record set during the hard times of Queen Elizabeth in 1592. Not the threat of man's destruction in war, but proof of nature's productivity, left Liverpool traders aghast: from Bulgaria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Poland, Rumania, the U. S. came reports of above-average crops. All told, world wheat production for 1939 was estimated at 3,995,000,000 bushels, exclusive of Russia and China, world consumption at about...
Married. Douglas ("Wrong Way") Corrigan, 32, and Elizabeth Marvin, 32. public-school teacher; on the first anniversary of his take-off for Ireland; in San Antonio...