Word: queen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...translation of "Mother Knows Best" into a system of government for the Indian Empire is just about the most admirable achievement of modern times, if indeed His Majesty's Government have not been too generous with the Indian people, those "Lesser Breeds" as Poet Kipling dubbed them in Queen Victoria...
Engagement Broken, Between Kenneth Harington, 25, of London; and the Hon. Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, 24, niece of Queen Elizabeth of England; after four years' betrothal. Explanation: none...
...does most of her work) and a tall house in London. She rarely makes a public appearance. She has no children. Careless of her clothes, her face, her greying hair, at 55 she is the picture of a sensitive, cloistered literary woman. Jealous juniors derisively style her "The Queen of Bloomsbury." Her physical existence is as sheltered now as it always has been. But in the 12-ft. square workroom, whose old-fashioned uncurtained windows overlook a half-acre of English garden, she has made a world of her own. It is not a cork-lined invalid's retreat...
With the publication of The Arabian Nights five years before his death in 1890, Burton became a literary sensation, was knighted by Queen Victoria-not for his embarrassingly faithful translation but for his explorations. His next effort, a translation of The Scented Garden, was to make "Mrs. Grundy howl." But the storm he foresaw over its publication broke instead over Isabel when horrified litterateurs, among them Burton's close crony Swinburne, learned that immediately after Burton's death she had destroyed the manuscript along with his diaries for 40 years...
...disturbed by Architect S. H. Maw's modernism, for Broker Housser is rated a Solid Citizen with a wife, daughter and grown son, pride in his golf, a fondness for fishing and a natural leaning toward conservatism. The executive offices in his new building are period (Queen Anne and Georgian), but the president's office does have a highly functional bar adjoining. At home Harry Housser has to serve his guests himself because his two servants are Seventh Day Adventists who will have nothing to do with liquor...