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Word: queen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ARD3 will rise, lifting the damaged battleship high and dry so that repairmen can get at its vital parts. The ARD3 will t»e so big that it can take care of anything the U. S. Navy now has afloat, and almost anything smaller than the Queen Mary that it is likely to launch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: ARD-3 | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...report, the Associated Press added that suggestions of abdication by His Majesty to marry Mrs. Simpson were welcomed by some of Their Lordships with the comment, "Then let him abdicate, by all means, and let's get on with the Duke and Duchess of York"-i.e., as King & Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parliament's Week: The Lords: | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

Besides the orthodox "Chorus of Harvard Students," the Funsters are offering a special attraction in the form of a "Chorus of Biddies," led by one Mrs. Flaherty. La Flaherty will sing a featured number, "I Am the Queen of the Biddies," and will dance in the style of Anne Corio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 11/28/1936 | See Source »

...Buchanan Merryman of Washington, D. C., during the first year of attentions paid to her by Edward of Wales (TIME, Sept. 24, 1934). Last week it appeared wise for the chaperonage of Mrs. Merryman to be resumed and grey-haired but gay Aunt Bessie rushed to England on the Queen Mary carrying the gun-metal bag she was given by H. R. H. during her previous chaperonage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Unprivate Lives | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

Visiting in Manhattan last week was a kindly, frosty-chinned churchman of 79, an Icelander and a Jesuit, whose Norse ancestors included such worthies as Queen Aud, widow of Olaf the White, King of Dublin, Thórd Gellir the Godar, who re-formed Iceland's Althing (Parliament) in 965, Loftur Guttormsson the Rich. Hrólfur Bjarnason the Strong and Svenn Thórarinsson who was a procurator and royal farm manager in 1857. When a son was born to Svenn Thórarinsson, he named the babe Jon Svensson. But Jon's mother nicknamed her child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Nonni | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

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