Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England, there was an influenza epidemic and no doubt about it. Queen Elizabeth was unable to attend the accession ceremonies of George VI because she had influenza. The new King's sister, Princess Mary, suffered an attack, as did the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester. Last week Queen Mother Mary took sick. Observed the London Times: "Whole households are being affected and considerable dislocation of business is taking place." The Sunday Dispatch: "1,000,000 persons are down with...
Seven years ago he married Elizabeth Jane Briggs, daughter of body-building Walter Owen Briggs. They have five children...
Reader Mueller has been lucky. It is true that Edward VIII, as Prince of Wales, began teasing the present Queen Elizabeth by calling her "Queen Elizabeth" directly after she married the Duke of York in 1923. TIME reported the practice May 9, 1932. For years a few people in England took half-seriously the report that Edward might decide never to come to the throne, but available evidence indicates that nobody expected Edward to become King and then make such a mess as to render abdication his cleanest...
...upon the ladder and Romeo Roosevelt below. Scene II between John Boettiger in Juliet's cap upon the ladder and Wooer William Randolph Hearst below. Scene III showed Mrs. Simpson (Helen Essary, wife of the Baltimore Sun's chief Washington correspondent) with Edward in Golden Crown (Newshen Elizabeth Mae Craig, correspondent for New England papers) below her and a black archiepiscopal figure (Martha Strayer, feature writer of the Washington News) intervening (see cut). All this being off the record, Ambassador Ronald Lindsay could not register a protest even though the parody took place in the White House...
...tartan kilts Elizabeth and Rosemary Luling, aged 6 and 7, skipped off the Aquitania to visit their mother, Novelist Sylvia Thompson (Mrs. Peter Luling), 34, treated Manhattan newshawks to a precocious discourse on their Teddy bears, "M" and "Teddy": "M is only six years old, but she's a gay lady who ignores little boys. Now Teddy, he's oldish and a sober sides. But he's a liberal and wears a top hat. M does not believe in Santa Claus, and there's logic in what she says always. M appreciates classical beauty...