Word: queen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Window-Dressers Benito Mussolini and Neville Chamberlain have been intimately corresponding for months (TIME, Aug. 9). It was clearly no accident that the Italian Premier suddenly agreed last week to a British scheme of July 14 which had seemed as dead as Queen Anne. Spade-bearded Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, on orders from Rome, brought the moribund Non-intervention Committee to life by making this "concession'' to the British last week in concert with the German Delegate, Dr. Ernst Woermann -for Adolf Hitler had also suddenly discovered that he no longer objects to the British scheme of July...
Meanwhile the King & Queen, the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke & Duchess of Kent were out in various parts of the United Kingdom taking an interest in housing and public welfare. After several days of such exertions, the Duke of Kent, who was about to inspect the Cardiff Royal Infirmary, broke down and gasped, I'm all in!" His Royal Highness, too exhausted to greet members of the infirmary staff with Her Royal Highness, was limousined away to rest. The Duke & Duchess of Gloucester indomitably inspected royal estates which belonged to the Duke of Windsor...
...Dutch suddenly realized that their delegate was slated to be chairman of a League committee which must examine the aggressions of Japan, and, since The Netherlands East Indies are within easy striking distance of the Japanese Navy, the risk of heading such a committee was deemed too great for Queen Wilhelmina's representative, who promptly resigned. Thus, smart Vilhelms Munters of Latvia came to be chosen, has presided in recent weeks with notable skill and tact over a League committee whose British and French members wanted Japan to be let as nearly alone as possible, while its Soviet...
...exhibition at the Findlay Galleries of 30 paintings by Montparnassian Moise Kisling. A fiery Polish Jew, friend for 20 years of such notable scapegraces as Utrillo, 46-year-old Kisling surprised gallery-goers with his weight of opulent color and delicate draughtsmanship. Included were two nudes of Kiki, catlike Queen of the Paris models, who once called Kisling "the swellest guy in the world," now sings sailor songs in her own Paris cafe...
...Napoleon explains to depressed Marie that in spite of the ugly jolt in Spain, he must now fight the Austrians and English, but would like very much to marry her first. Marie declines. His future, she says, looks black enough without complicating it further by waving a Polish Queen in the Tsar's face. But she will be happy to continue as his mistress, will even stop talking politics...