Word: grandmama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed grandmama of Baby King Mihai of Rumania was reported, last week, to be planning for next Fall a second triumphal tour...
Meanwhile at Bucharest the Dowager Queen Marie, grandmama of Boy King...
...child sat mouse-still. Possibly he was awed by the nearby presence of his widowed "grandmama,'' famed Margot Asquith. Perhaps, on the other hand, he was now and then whisperingly reminded not to squirm by his mother. She is Mrs. Raymond Asquith, widow of the late statesman's eldest son, who was killed in action in 1916. Whether she whispered or "Margot" frowned, the eleven-year-old heir & Earl listened with exemplary gravity, last week, while Prime Minister Baldwin and onetime Prime Ministers Lloyd George & Ramsay MacDonald declaimed funereally from the floor of the House...
...Biblical and almost regal splendor. Cried the Dowager Queen Marie, kneeling beside her husband's bier: "He was a saint! Oh, a saint on earth. ... I would gladly have given my own life could he have been spared!" Said King Michael, seeking to comfort her: "Don't cry, grandmama...
...Adele Astaire delighted Royalty with that song and dance, Lady Be Good. Next evening Miss Jane Cowl brazened before the grandson of super purist Queen Victoria, in Easy Virtue. From the King-Emperor's vocal chords there issued not, last week, the baleful rebuke with which his grandmama blasted all questionable jests (even one cracked precociously in infancy by the present Edward of Wales) : "We are not amused...