Word: queen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rightist Spain's stamps, which are simply labeled CORREOS (MAIL), some of which bear the portrait of Queen Isabella, were declared invalid by little Costa Rica this week, but are accepted in the rest of the postal union. *Besides the standard, pre-Revolution red-barred yellow flag of Spain and the flags of sympathetic Germany, Italy and Portugal, hotel? and public squares in Rightist Spain punctiliously display, to the astonishment of most patrons, the blue and white banner with the parrotlike bird of Guatemala...
England has long boasted the so-called "Queen Bee" type of airplane which takes off, flies and lands without a soul aboard, being controlled by radio from the ground or by an accompanying plane. As yet it has no military importance because the system breaks down as soon as the "Queen Bee" gets out of sight of the operator. Last week the U. S. Army Air Corps announced in enigmatic but unusually enthusiastic language for that reticent group that it had gone the "Queen Bee'' one better. According to the Air Corps, an old single-motored Fokker...
Grandson of the powerful Duke of Northumberland (beheaded 15 months before Philip's birth), nephew of the Earl of Leicester (rumored lover of Queen Elizabeth), godson of Philip of Spain, Sir Philip Sidney minimized his royal connections by taking as motto: Hardly do I call these things ours. A frail, handsome, serious child, he was early accustomed to "plots, conspiracies, attempted assassinations, rebellions, mutilations, headings and hangings . . . burnings at the stake." As Queen Elizabeth's Lord Deputy in Ireland and Lord President of Wales, his own father, a Polonius-like stalwart who advised Philip to "pray and wash...
...sandbanks that make one of the most treacherous regions of the Atlantic coast lies the verdant ten-mile strip of Roanoke Island. There Sir Walter Raleigh made his early and unsuccessful attempts to colonize the land which he, ever the courtier, tactfully called Virginia in honor of his virgin Queen Elizabeth. A previous settlement had already failed when in the summer of 1587 some 120 settlers under Governor John White landed at stout little Fort Raleigh, on the northern tip of the island. On Aug. 18 Governor White's daughter, Eleanor Dare, bore her husband Ananias, a daughter...
Geoffrey Dawson, almost anonymous as a public character, may plausibly be rated among the score of men (and Queen Mother Mary) who really rule the British Empire. For small Mr. Dawson is head of one of Britain's greatest institutions, editor of London's Times. The importance of the Times is something that no British Government could ever overlook. Next to what the Times itself thinks, the Government watches what readers of the Times think...