Word: queen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SALESMAN to His Majesty (after Queen Elizabeth has purchased three dozen pairs of silk stockings and walked on a short distance) : "May I show you these stockings, sir? Now you'll know them when the bill comes in. Thank...
...Brooklyn cutlery buyer and his wife have been espied by Queen Mary buying cutlery...
...QUEEN MOTHER: "How do you do? I have been informed you are American buyers, and I am certainly glad to meet you here...
This becomes an international front-page sensation for several days as the Brooklynites trip over each other in contradictory stories about "how we met the whole gosh-darned Royal Family all at once-not even Mrs. Simpson ever did that!" They agree that Queen Elizabeth asks practical questions, that the Duchess of Kent is a raving beauty, that King George finally turns from them to ask his Royal Family: "How about having lunch...
Several evenings later at Albert Hall the Queen Mother is told that a little girl has asked, "Did you say the Queen Mary has come, mummy? How can a great big ship like that get into Albert Hall?" Amused, the Queen Mother sends for the little girl, gives her a carnation from Her Majesty's corsage...