Word: princess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Victoria Embankment, 40,000 school children in berets of maroon, green and blue swarm into their places. Peter Suffren, 6, with a row of tin medals on his chest and clutching a bottle of milk, a bag of potato chips, says: "I wish I had a princess for a girl...
...Duke's allies were limited to Queen Mary and the Duke & Duchess of Kent. Only one of the royal duchesses who was royal-born, as Princess Marina of Greece, the Duchess of Kent's pre-abdication backing of Mrs. Simpson was due almost entirely to her delight in annoying her Scottish sisters-in-law, but she has frequently let it be known that she would never spend a night under the same roof with "that woman" (Wallis Warfield). At week's end news of a compromise of a sort emerged...
...spring evening 25 years ago when Christian was called to the throne, he was already acting ruler in his father's absence. The bad news came from Hamburg. There his tall father, Frederik VIII, had been out for an evening stroll alone. Queen Louise (a Swedish-Norwegian princess) was at home in Copenhagen. A heart attack overtook the old gentleman (he was 68). Passersby helped him to a hospital, none knowing who he was. For hours he lay on a public mortuary slab before identification was made...
Constitutionally bilious and inclined to be morose in the morning, at heart he is a "family man," specially devoted to his only grandchild, 2-year-old Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Christian's younger son Prince Knud. At home with the Queen, he twiddles the radio for her like any shopkeeper...
Killers of the Sea (Grand National). Hero of this five-reel sport feature is one Wallace Caswell, captain of the fishing schooner Princess and constable of Panama City, Fla. Caswell. according to Lowell Thomas, whose commentary is dubbed into the silent film shot on board the Princess, conceived as a boy so trenchant a disdain for sharks, turtles, sawfish and other sea killers that upon reaching manhood he dedicated himself to slaughtering them singlehanded, using no other weapon than a fish knife...