Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nicholas Murray Butler's maternal grandfather, Rev. Nicholas Murray of Elizabeth, N. J., was a lifetime Presbyterian and onetime Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church. Says his grandson: "So marked was his leadership and so great was his authority that he was often humorously referred to as the Presbyterian Pope...
...least three: Fletcher (died, 1936), Barbour (defeated, 1938) and Vandenberg, pictured above with J. P. Morgan at the garden party for England's George and Elizabeth...
Scots ideas of discipline in child training molded the future Queen from birth. In her girlhood as Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, not only was she taught to cook, sew and garden but on certain days, dressed as a housemaid, it was her duty to show tourists the sights of Glamis and afterward when most of them offered tips she was Scotch about that too. About 30 miles from Glamis is the Royal Family's Balmoral Castle, and Queen Mary took an early fancy to budding Lady Elizabeth who presently in 1922 was bridesmaid to Princess Mary. King George...
...style (he shot a white rhinoceros, she refused to shoot another "because they are so rare"); Polish monarchists offered to start a movement to make him King of Poland (he declined with thanks); the Duke came down with influenza; and the Duchess was delivered of her first child, Princess Elizabeth, on April...
...years which followed Britain began to see in the devoted domesticity of the Yorks what finally was found so glaringly lacking in Edward of Wales. "She is one of us!" became what everyone said of Elizabeth, "the Smiling Duchess." Jocularly Wales would call his sister-in-law, the Duchess of York, "Queen Elizabeth" at times, and when King George V died many believed that Edward was resolved to avoid the Throne by abdicating then and there...