Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prefer female teachers to males. Arthur Murray has a back door and private elevator for timid souls who do not like to be seen entering. But such people as Paul Whiteman, Margaret Bourke-White, the Duke of Windsor, Myrna Loy, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Germany, James Roosevelt, Lowell Thomas, Elizabeth Arden and Ina Claire are not ashamed of having gone in the front way. Altogether the school handles 3,000 pupils a day. As result of a tie-up with Fleischmann's yeast (a mail order course for 81 yeast labels), Arthur Murray has acquired 350,000 correspondence students...
...ideas, educate them for international cooperation, rally them to united action for preventing war. To carry out this ambitious program the first World Youth Congress in 1936 opened a one-room office in Geneva, installed there as international secretary a 23-year-old British delegate, small, brown-eyed, comely Elizabeth Shields-Collins, daughter of an East Indian trader. Miss Collins and her collaborator. Michael Wallace, son of the late British Author Edgar Wal lace, did their work so well that to the second congress last week came youths from almost every important country, nearly every major church, every shade...
...Paris, alarmed journals of the Left, which had hoped that the Anglo-French solidarity, just bulwarked by the visit of King George & Queen Elizabeth, gave Czechoslovakia a blank check to do as she liked about German demands, clamored that by thrusting in the cushion last week, Perfidious Albion had tricked Prague. There was some truth in this. Britain had seized an opportunity to check any Czech rashness which might precipitate a general European...
...pieces were brought separately by the Scotland Yard detectives to Their Majesties, who lodged on the Quai d'Orsay in the palace of the French Foreign Office. There, the large bed in which small Emperor Napoleon once slept was found just right for tall George VI, but Queen Elizabeth proved too tall to be comfortable in the bed of petite Marie Antoinette and this priceless antique was quickly replaced by something a trifle larger, less romantic...
Back in Paris that evening, Queen Elizabeth decided it was about time she and King George insisted on appearing to the clamoring Paris populace at close range. In progress at the Palais d'Orsay was an evening's entertainment by such world favorites as Maurice Chevalier and Yvonne Printemps, staged for the King and Queen and about 120 guests. The party could be seen through the brightly lighted windows of the Palace. Popular cheers and impatience increased, and Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut squirmed nervously on his chair, several times half rose as if to order the curtains...