Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty the Queen Mother graciously surrendered last week to Her Majesty the Queen the $750,000 Kohinoor diamond of 106 carats. It has been the chief jewel of Queen Mary's Crown, now goes into new Queen Elizabeth's new crown on which London platinumsmiths are rushing work. By an unprecedented alteration in British rules of precedence the extremely popular Queen Mother was last week slated to drive ahead of the King & Queen in the Coronation procession. At previous Coronations it has been customary for a Queen Mother to make no public appearance...
...addition, Leverett S. Tuckerman, Jr. '40 of Salem has been awarded the Elizabeth Wilder Prize...
...Murray Hill", by Leslie Howard, ran in England under the name of "Elizabeth Sleeps Out", but when brought to this country it was thought appropriate for some unknown reason to change the title to the more sedate name...
...going for a nickel ride on the subway. Most elusive winner was Betty Fitzgerald, switchboard operator for an importing company whose telephone service was disrupted by reporters whom Operator Fitzgerald refused to see in person. Shaggiest winners were a Mr. & Mrs. John Unseld, German-born proprietors of an Elizabeth, N. J. chicken farm, who had signed their ticket "Happy Easter." Said Farmer Unseld: "Chickens are more bother than they're worth. Maybe I'll build an apartment house. Maybe I'll lease a farm. Maybe I'll go back to Germany. Who knows what...
...Grand National is the No. i magnet of the year for U. S. Anglophiles. This year, because the Coronation outranks it as an attraction, there were fewer Americans than usual in the crowd of 500,000. In the Earl of Derby's box sat King George and Queen Elizabeth, who had the good fortune to bet a pound note on the winner. Feature of the race, which only seven of the 33 starters contrived to finish, was the outrageous behavior of a horse named Drim. Drim unseated his rider, ran on without him, caught up with the leaders, tried...