Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their real hostess at Hyde Park was, of course, the President's mother, which made it all the more like home and Queen Mother Mary. Mother Roosevelt took a strong fancy to George, patted his arm as well as Elizabeth's hand when she said good-by at the Hyde Park station. When the Roosevelts repay the visit, as they almost certainly will at some time, she may well...
...Results of George's and Elizabeth's 30-day, 10,000-mile visit to Canada and the U. S., during which they were seen by some 15,000,000 people, were intangible but evident. Canada had been given a shot of Empire enthusiasm which would be a long time wearing off. The U. S. and Britain had put on a show of good neighborliness that had dominated the world's news for a week. While the London Times augustly observed that "there was nothing political in the visit," the liberal News Chronicle probably reflected European reactions more...
After that their doctors will pack George and Elizabeth off to the country for a well-won rest...
...People (JellO, Ice Cream Products), which specializes in airing human curios, dug up for the occasion a fluttery visiting Englishwoman, Mrs. Lucille Baring Wilson, introduced as "Miss Lucille Baring of London, England." Said Miss Baring: "I remember when Elizabeth was a little girl ... she had all sorts of pets-dogs, birds, turtles and two little black pigs named Emma and Lucifer...
...When the King and Queen were the Duke and Duchess of York, they lived next door to me in London. . . . The children's favorite playmate was their Uncle, the Prince of Wales. . . . Queen Elizabeth told me their uncle taught them American slang. . . . And I'll never forget the day the children came to lunch, hardly able to speak because their uncle had given them their first chewing...