Word: margarets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party at the Governor's mansion, an inspection of the guard of honor. At Gingindhlovu next day there had been more receptions, at Eshowe a vast war dance of 5,000 screaming, booming Zulu warriors and their womenfolk, naked to the waist. When Elizabeth's younger sister Margaret started to smile at the Zulus, Elizabeth reproved her with a headshake. At Durban, on Thursday, there were more addresses of welcome, displays of homage, a civic ball, a garden party, and another memorial to be dedicated. Princess Elizabeth complained to a friend that she was meeting very few young...
...carefully point out, "achieved only through merit." At Windsor Elizabeth was the Bosun of the Kingfisher Patrol of the Sea Rangers (seagoing Guides), and woe betide any Ranger who came aboard the flagship (a whaleboat presented by King George) like a landlubber. "Here," she once told her chatterbox sister Margaret, "I am not your sister, and I'll permit no slackness." Margaret, too, can be critical. "Lilibet," she once said, "that's the fourteenth chocolate biscuit you've eaten. You're as bad as Mother-you don't know when to stop...
Arts, Letters, and Philosophy: Edward Addelson 4G, R. B. Angell 2G, Margaret P. Breed 2G, Raymond J. Dorius 3G, Albert Merriman, Jr. 6G, Alfred Schwarz...
...critics wrestled with themselves, and turned out estimates ranging from "considerable promise" to "at best, a good amateur." Most agreed that she had considerable courage. Margaret stayed close to her phone. Her mother called from the White House; her father from Florida. "Baby," said Harry Truman, "I'm glad it's over...
Bees on the Cake. In Bloemfontein Princess Margaret got a special thrill with her first ride in an airplane, when she and the family piled into their royal Vikings for a quick picnic in the Free State Game Reserve. Princess Elizabeth had already had her big moment in East London when she christened a new dry dock and was given five flawless diamonds from...