Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Years ago Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining, the American Quaker who tutored Akihito during his childhood, said to Dr. Koizumi: "She who marries the crown prince must be a girl of spirit who will not be a doormat; she must not be someone who will be easily overwhelmed." Michiko Shoda, standing straight and slim beside her devoted prince, seems precisely that girl...
...Magnate Conrad Hilton was Cineminx Eva Gabor, sister of Hilton's ex-wife Zsa Zsa, whose former husband, Cinemenace George Sanders, had recently moved out with his new bride Benita Hume, widow of Cinemactor Ronald Colman. Eva, it so happens, is a former potential step-aunt of Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor (through Liz's first marriage to Hilton's playboy son Nicky), thus also ex-step-great-aunt, two marriages removed, of another guest in the Casa, fledgling Cinemogul Mike Todd Jr., son of Liz's third husband and, naturally, Hilton's ex-step-grandson...
...visit to the stables of Santa Anita race track, Turfwoman Elizabeth Arden Graham stopped to pet one of her surest stakes winners ($349,642 in 1957), Jewel's Reward, got no reward herself: the surly four-year-old chomped hard, nipped off the end of her right index finger...
From one of its steadiest suppliers, a British frozen-food company received a chilly ultimatum: either boost its price for peas (currently $126 a ton) or move all that pea-picking machinery off the Norfolk property. The hard-bargaining farm owner: Queen Elizabeth...
...excesses of her more diligent henchmen sickened even Elizabeth, the Queen who presided over the liquidation of Roman Catholicism in England. After about 180 executions, including the Jesuit Robert Southwell, Elizabeth said that if her council wanted to convert more Catholics to the Established Church, they should do so by the example of their lives. "For I," she cried, "will persecute no more than I have done...