Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Past Errors." Last fortnight Premier Sikorski was in London, where King George and Queen Elizabeth lunched them at Buckingham Palace and they had long conferences at No. 10 Downing Street with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. General Sikorski created a mild sensation by declaring that his Government does not differentiate between the German and Russian invasion of his country and added that he had no reason to believe that Britain and France take a contrary view. In tune with the new Anglo-French groping toward a European Union, he voiced "hope that the convulsions now shaking Europe will lead...
Married. Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, 57, exiled former chief of the Italian Press & Propaganda Bureau, University of Chicago professor of Italian literature, author of Goliath: The March of Fascism (TIME, Sept. 27, 1937); and Elizabeth Veronika Mann, 21, youngest daughter of exiled German Author Thomas Mann; he for the second time, she for the first; in Princeton...
Frail, feminist Mrs. Adelaide Johnson, a sculptor for more than 60 of her 80-odd years, long knew and admired the late great Suffragette Susan B. Anthony. Her statue of Miss Anthony, rising (with fellow Feminists Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton) from a sea of Carrara marble, rests in the crypt of the U. S. Capitol-"the first monument of woman to women," states Mrs. Johnson in her Who's Who paragraph, "in any nat. capitol in the world." Fortnight ago Mrs. Johnson faced eviction from her studio-home in Washington. Thereupon she did what Susan Anthony...
...their time, to produce three colossal figures (Alexander I, Catherine the Great, Peter the Great), one kind man (Alexander II, who freed the serfs, was killed by a bomb). The rest were monsters, comic grotesques, mental cases, or blank nonentities: calf-eyed Mihaïl, who died of melancholia; Elizabeth, the hard-drinking, nominally virgin queen whose beer-barrel figure enabled her to pass off her pregnancies as "indigestion"; infantile, impotent Peter III and insane Paul, "as ugly and misshapen as an abortion," both hideously murdered; Nicholas II's hard, huge, colorless papa; Nicholas himself, "the most pitiful...
...Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Donald Crisp; TIME...