Word: queen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was all U. S. newshawks needed to make them realize what a change had been wrought in the huge, spreading $1,000,000 red-and-white Queen Anne palace that houses the British Embassy on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue...
...towering Sir Ronald Lindsay was cold and haughty as only a really shy person can be. Since 1930 he held no single press conference until the pressure of the approaching visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth forced him to undergo what he looked on as a most excruciating ordeal. Newshawks found no news at the British Embassy, were invariably frozen swiftly over the telephone. Last week the chill...
...Actium, in 31 B. C., while spellbound land forces stopped fighting to watch, Octavian's Roman fleet struck the Eastern fleet of Antony and Cleopatra, until Antony's soldiers saw their leader abandon the fight, sail off with the Egyptian queen...
...necessary party. Quick-eyed, anxious to seem hearty and flexible, eager to dispel the aura of his title by democratic .manners, expected to travel and speak more than Sir Ronald did, his assignment (in cold fact) is to follow up on the visit of King George & Queen Mary, align the U. S. as close as may be behind an Empire whose back is close to the wall. His hope: "To do half as well as Joe Kennedy...
...King George returned, hurried and hatless, from Scotland to attend Privy Council, become a quasi-dictator and stay at Buckingham Palace, beneath whose gardens were built prodigious bombproof quarters for King, retinue, servants. Queen Elizabeth and the two Princesses stayed on at Balmoral Castle, where gas masks were issued to all. Later they would go to Windsor Castle, whose rock, looming above the fabled cricket fields of Eton, was tunneled and chambered invulnerably for them and for art treasures from Buckingham Palace as well as the Castle. Queen Mary obdurately insisted on staying at Sandringham on the dangerous east coast...