Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...syndicated column, My Day, Eleanor Roosevelt revealed that she sometimes takes voice lessons: "I have had a lesson this morning with Mrs. Elizabeth von Hesse, who tries in the brief opportunities I occasionally give her to improve my speaking voice. All I can say is that if she is successful I consider her a most extraordinary teacher, for I give her very little opportunity to teach...
...modern deck of playing cards dates back to Queen Elizabeth's day-the four kings pictured are David, Alexander, Caesar and Charlemagne...
...TREE OF LIBERTY-Elizabeth Page -Farrar & Rinehart...
With the Wind), Farrar & Rinehart pulled the lever again last week with another whopper, The Tree of Liberty (985 pages to 1,224 for Anthony Adverse). The book and the law of averages being what they are, no jackpot is likely to shower down. The Tree of Liberty, Elizabeth Page's first novel, took five years to write, will not take so long to read. Its breeziness is astounding, in view of the hot and heavy research the author did for it (32 huge collections of national, state, private records and letters, files of 26 periodicals, 183 biographies, histories...
British censorship taboos ridiculing any living person on the stage. Ridiculing the King and Queen would strike most Britishers as unthinkable. Yet London is at present laughing its head off at a play whose characters, though not actually named, unmistakably include King George, Queen Elizabeth, Chamberlain, Hitler, Mussolini and the "Cliveden...