Word: queen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in Italy the King & Queen and Crown Prince & Crown Princess entertained the Görings, and this week they were to holiday briefly in romantic Capri, always a magnet for sentimental German tourists. In the interval, boastful henchmen talked openly of "forcing the resignation" of Jewish-Socialist French Premier Leon Blum, next "detaching" France from her Soviet alliance, and finally "restoring" Britain, Germany, France and Italy to comradeship under the big tent of II Duce's recently quiescent Four-Power-Pact (TIME, April 10, 1933 et seq.). They bragged as if there were of course enough Might handy...
With most of the figures dressed in huge playing cards, the first panel shows Edward on his throne, vacillating, a kneeling Stanley Baldwin offering him a crown. Mrs. Simpson waits at the garden gate with her pet dog while the Archbishop of Canterbury and Queen Mary look on in horror. In the second panel, Edward in raincoat with Mrs. Simpson on his arm is marching over a bridge. Queen and Archbishop are still horrified, while Stanley Baldwin as the Jack of Clubs sits completely dejected on a stone beside a sorrowing Knave who might be Anthony Eden. In both panels...
...Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots," "The Great Train Robbery," famous early melodrama, and "A Trip to the Moon," are features of the first program. It was announced that there are about 150 seats available for the afternoon showing. Undergraduates may join the Society by payment of $1. This membership entitles them to a ticket for all five programs...
Last week the Dowager's literary dermatitis passed into a more acute stage: Queen Marie wrote a novel...
...tears for the nature of things, Queen Marie cannot forbear to drop a timely one on the catafalque of Royalty...