Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elizabeth, Duchess of York and Albert, Duke of York prepared months ago this Christmas Card apropos the Sovereign. At a moment when everyone is coupling King Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson, this couples King Edward III and Lady Salisbury. She has dropped her garter, courtiers are tittering, and the chivalrous King is about to master the situation by putting on the thing himself and making the Order of the Garter the most exalted form of British knighthood...
...when she founded the school in Wallingford, Conn, in 1890. It was named after Judge William Gardner Choate's nearby Rosemary Farm (now the site of Choate School for boys). Ten years after she moved it to Greenwich in 1900 began her association with another Englishwoman, small Mary Elizabeth Lowndes, who last week remained as co-headmistress. The first Greenwich plant burned in 1923, an event commemorated in innumerable subsequent fire drills. Altogether Rosemary has educated some 1,800 girls from prosperous families, including Mrs. Robert Alphonso Taft of Cincinnati, Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert, Jacob Gould Schurman...
...Even as Prince of Wales, the present King was inclined to tease the Duchess, calling her "Queen Elizabeth," by which he implied that he might renounce his rights thus making her husband King (TIME...
...syndicates. Like young Rothschild, he devises a scheme for speeding up news. Instead of pigeons, he has a semaphore to flash messages across the English channel. While operating his system, Blake meets a mysterious young English girl (Madeleine Carroll ) at Calais. When she turns out to be Lady Elizabeth Stacy, wife of a foppish young peer (George Sanders), frustrated Blake puts all his energies into Lloyd's. He has made himself head of its most powerful syndicate when his semaphore brings the news that the French have sunk 63 British merchant ships off the Azores. All of Lloyd...
...beat his head against customs, he will be unhappy and will wear off the crown the lustre which his three predecessors worked hard to add. The way out of the maze is for him to resign, handing over the sceptre to a regent in trust for the Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the Duke of York and heir apparent. This dignified gesture would hurt the crown much less than the current hush-hush hocus pocus, and would allow all parties to breathe easier...