Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tape-recorded message. Queen Elizabeth II, who was bedded in London with a sinus infection, announced to wildly cheering crowds at the Empire Games' final ceremony in Cardiff, Wales that Charles was getting the title which Edward I first bestowed upon his own son in 1301. "I intend," said the Queen, "to create my son Prince of Wales today. When he is grown up, I will present him to you at Caernarvon." In addition to being Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Prince and Great...
Nobody worried about increasing the membership beyond the present 870 or so, though the chamber seats only about 250: after all, fewer than a hundred regularly show up, and some Lords never have. Last week, after her ministers agreed on possible candidates, Queen Elizabeth named ten new male life peers and four women. The peeresses, who, with brand new titles, will take their seats in November...
There was no such next time, and young Bisset graduated from sail to steam, eventually (1944) became the gold-encrusted commodore of the Cunard-White Star Line and successively master of the world's greatest sea queens, Mary and Elizabeth. Now 75 and living in well-fed Australian retirement, Sir James Gordon Partridge Bisset sits in the lee of the longboat and spins a salty yarn of life in an oldtime square-rigger. On his first voyage, Bisset was seasick. The mate gave him an old-fashioned cure: a pannikin of sea water poured down his protesting gullet. Though...
...University of Michigan's Elizabeth Caroline Crosby, 69, topflight neuroanatomist and the first woman to be appointed a full professor at Michigan's medical school. For five years after she got her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1915, intense, energetic Elizabeth Crosby served as principal and superintendent of schools in Petersburg, Mich., at one point also coached the boys' basketball team. She began teaching at the U. of Michigan in 1920, during her years there wrote and edited some of medicine's basic works on neuroanatomy, gathered probably the largest collection of sub-mammalian...
...dance version of Winesburg, Saddler focused on four of the book's most luridly contorted figures: Elizabeth Willard. whose uncontrollable love for her son feeds "the feeble blaze of life that remained in her;" the Peeping-Tom minister, the Rev. Curtis Hartman, who sees God in a naked woman; a love-starved spinster named Alice Hindman; and the local doxy, one Louise Trunnion. As Anderson had done, Choreographer Saddler used the inflamed observations of George Willard, Elizabeth's son and a reporter for the Winesburg Eagle, as the thread to stitch the incidents together...