Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rigid attention. They were joined by plumed horsemen of the Household Cavalry. To take the salute, the King himself, not yet sufficiently recovered from his leg ailment to ride horseback, drove over from Buckingham Palace in an open carriage, closely followed by the Duke of Gloucester and Princess Elizabeth, sidesaddle on her chestnut gelding Winston...
Gloucester's mount got out of hand and had to be pulled back into line by two Guards officers. Elizabeth's Winston, pestered by a swarm of thunder flies, began to curvet alarmingly. The King looked around anxiously as his daughter, trimly uniformed as a Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, brought her mount under control. The King walked over to congratulate Elizabeth on her horsemanship. The only other near-casualty reported was a drummer who fainted in the heat and lost his hat. His flanking comrades held him erect until the show was over...
...Miami Beach, the mother of Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 17, announced her pretty daughter's engagement to William D. Pawley Jr., 28, wartime Hump flyer and son of the former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil. Lieut. Glenn Davis, 24, fast-stepping "Mr. Outside" of wartime West Point football, who long held the inside track with Elizabeth, was now definitely on the outside. Yes, Elizabeth had worn Glenn's gold football, Mrs. Taylor admitted, but only as "a perfectly normal part of growing up." Elizabeth, looking alluringly grown up last week, flashed a 3½-carat diamond at reporters. "Nice piece...
...annual allowance from Parliament and numerous legacies), but to all intents she is a grownup, with her own suite of rooms at the palace. The yawning gap of years that separates her from her elder sister is all but closed. There is only one minor difference left: one day Elizabeth will probably be Queen and she, in all likelihood, will not. For Margaret that difference means only more freedom for herself. She may marry whomever she pleases (provided, of course, that he is not a Roman Catholic, that she gets her father's permission if she is still under...
...novels of Britain's Ivy Compton-Burnett have received so much highbrow adulation that there is a growing suspicion that they must be unreadable. The suspicion has some foundation: when Elizabeth Bowen says that "Miss Compton-Burnett is always fundamentally truthful at the expense of realism," she is simply saying that many readers will never have the vaguest notion of what Compton-Burnett is being so truthful about...