Word: queen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broadcast . . . from Germany, the announcer stated that a fight had occurred in New York City between the crew members of the Queen Mary and those of the Normandie, because the Frenchmen said words to the effect that "England will fight this war to the last Frenchman." The fight (so the German announcer said) required the intervention of New York City police...
Married. Michael Whitney Straight, 23, son of the late Willard Dickerman Straight, founder of the New Republic and Asia, and of Mrs. Leonard Knight Elm-hirst, queen of Dartington Hall, vast educational experiment in Devonshire, England; and Belinda Booth Crompton, 19; in Wilton...
Last week observers had difficulty recognizing the Queen Mary, though Britain's big luxury liner lay in plain sight next the Normandie at her dock in Manhattan's North River. Her superstructure, more spotlessly white than ever, seemed to be suspended over a smudgy grey cloud that blended with wharves and water. The lower part of the ship had all but disappeared under a coat of grey paint. Day or two later the white superstructure almost disappeared too. The Queen Mary was not slapping on war paint (battleship grey is several tones bluer and less muddy...
...course, make torpedoes miss their mark. Opponents of dazzle long insisted that camouflage should conceal as well as confuse, and since World War I they have waged their own quiet war against disruptive camouflage. When the Aquitania, also painted a solid, muddy grey, slipped into her berth near the Queen Mary last week, it looked as if British anti-dazzlers...
...made up of "cookie-pushers" whose chief concern is the hang of their striped trousers, was just true enough to make many a grave, correct, dry-worded gentleman in the Department dislike the appointment of Joe Kennedy to London. They correctly foresaw such incidents as Kennedy's telling Queen Elizabeth to her face that she was "a cute trick." They did not foresee that Queen Elizabeth would be pleased and flattered beyond words...