Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surface and has 500,000,000 subjects, would probably have been the envy of that ambitious little monarch Henry VIII. The luckless, unpopular Stuarts would have grown green with jealousy had they been able to witness the crowds which last week cheered as King George and his consort, Queen Elizabeth, drove in state from London's stately Buckingham Palace to drab Waterloo Station, there to catch a special boat train for Portsmouth. Almost any of Britain's past crowned heads would have admired the scene at Portsmouth...
Thousands on the docks shouting "God bless you!" "A happy voyage!" "Give our love to America!" Seventy-one-year-old Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, wiped tears from her eyes. The King's daughters, Princess Elizabeth, 13-year-old heir-presumptive to the throne, and Princess Margaret Rose, 8, waved handkerchiefs. An obsequious bevy of Ministers, Neville Chamberlain, Lord Halifax, Sir Samuel Hoare, lined up to say goodby. The great white liner provided for the King's conveyance-Canadian Pacific's 25-year-old Empress of Australia, formerly the German Tirpitz-the spoils of a victorious...
Thirteen years ago Kathryn Elizabeth Smith was an uninhibited 16-year-old lummox of a girl singing and doing the Charleston in Washington, D. C. amateur shows. Broadway Showman Eddie Dowling brought her to Manhattan as "Tiny Little" in Honeymoon Lane. During more than four years of Broadway (Hit the Deck, Flying High), the comics of the show business treated her to so many cruel fat-lady gags that finally, bitter and hurt, she packed and went home...
...mother.) Since 1929, all Anna Eleanor Roosevelt's ceremonial clothes have been designed by strapping, golden-blonde Lucille Mahoney, Arnold Constable's designer-buyer. Last week Miss Mahoney completed her most exacting assignment: nine ensembles to be worn during the visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth. They include: an ermine stole made of 250 Alaskan pelts; a chiffon dress in mauve, lime green, petal pink shades; an evening dress of Alenqon lace. Twittered proud Designer Mahoney: "Mrs. Roosevelt is usually very quick about deciding on her clothes, but last time she spent two hours here...
Adither over the approaching visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (see p. 24), Elzire Dionne, after many a false start, finally selected a gown for her presentation. Color: "japonica" (a rust shade). Jittered Papa Oliva Dionne: "Me, I'm just a farmer and don't know what to wear...