Word: princess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this underworld, shy, sickly, dowdy and dull Princess Anne-later Good Queen Anne, the last of the Stuart monarchs-groped for a hand to guide her. She turned to one of her childhood friends, Sarah Jennings, and found that her hand was dexterous, hard and tipped with eagle's claws...
...superintendent of a private, exclusive Stockholm school announced the appointment of a new gymnastics teacher at $956 a year: Sweden's tall, trim Princess Birgitta, 21. Tumbling among her first pupils will be Crown Prince Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus, 12, her brother...
...Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velàsquez, court painter to Spain's proud Philip IV, was finishing a portrait of the King's daughter, the blonde, five-year-old Infanta Margarita. Around the demure princess bustled two noble maids of honor and two attendant dwarfs (one got, as a special favor, a pound of snow for each summer-day's work). A mastiff dozed on the floor, and in a mirror, Velàsquez occasionally caught sight of the King and Queen stopping to see how the sittings were progressing. Seized by new inspiration...
...professional birdbrain, whose irrelevance and irreverence were fun until Paar got rid of her in an unseemly family squabble (TIME, March 24). Elsa Maxwell appeared for weekly off-with-their-heads chats, chopped at so many well-known necks (including Winchell's, Presley's, Princess Grace's) that Jack was only half kidding when he rolled his eyes and groaned: "Call the lawyers." For a few frenetic nights, Zsa Zsa Gabor leaned over her cleavage and rattled her host into some now famous fluffs. "It will cut him!" she squealed, in the middle of his Norelco razor...
...teachers and an equal number of students pick the twelve prettiest. Each girl gives a short speech, and the list of quarter-finalists is narrowed. Then, amid plentiful uproar at assemblies timed to newspaper-edition deadlines, the prettiest teen-ager at each high school in Portland is named Princess of the Rose Festival, a civic promotion of considerable local sanctity...