Word: queen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back to the paper to notice that the world outside has not changed, with Mr. Morgan, back on the Queen Mary, taking issue with Mr. Roosevelt without mincing words. It would seem that although death is as certain as ever, taxes, especially those on the incomes of the rich men, are far less so. A picture of Miss Earhart, in Africa, flying this time from west to east and still trying to find out what makes this world go round...
Princess Beatrice is the widow of Prince Henry of Battenberg, is the mother of former Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain and resides, unless I have been misinformed, in Kensington Palace, London and Carisbrooke Castle, her official residence as Governor of the Isle of Wight. She is the youngest child of Victoria, and with her sister was among those included in the present King's Coronation honours list...
...Alaska everybody who is anybody knows who Martin Slisco is. North of the Arctic Circle 200 miles as the planes fly from Fairbanks toward Point Barrow the roadhouse and store of Martin Slisco queen it over the 48-house settlement of Wiseman, trading and social centre for the 127 whites and Eskimos who live in the gold & game filled 15.000 square miles of the upper Koyukuk River basin. Since 1910 Bachelor Slisco, 53, has lived in Wiseman. Since 1924 he has owned and operated the roadhouse and store, welcoming the dog-mushers, riverboaters and flyers; playing nightly host at phonograph...
...this week Martin Slisco's waiting had a happy ending. Red tape had finally been cut and down the gangplank of the Aquitania when it docked in Manhattan came dark-eyed Para Krka, ready to be installed as queen of the Koyukuk...
...spider farm" on Lancaster Pike outside Philadelphia, Reporter Paine said that 4,000 spiders of the species Nephila plumipes (who spun the "finest webs") were busy working for M. Grantaire, that he shipped them to customers in "little paper boxes, so many dozen in each crate." that the Queen spider was named "Sara Bernhardt," that her consort, fearsome "Emile Zola," was a specimen of the famed "bird-hunting spiders of Surinam." When M. Grantaire tapped on one of her filaments, Reporter Paine's straight-faced account continued, "Sara" ran up his finger for a fly, after which "the startling...