Word: queen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acts of revolt naturally took place among the lowest of the populace. ... The FRENCH GUARDS UNANIMOUSLY joined the Citizens, and a set of more noble, orderly, and determined men I never saw. . . . Placards were publicly stuck up by well known persons, setting a price on the HEADS of the QUEEN, the COMTE D'ARTOIS, the POLIGNACS, and others. The guard, horse and foot, of Paris (the horse are a fine body), all joined us in the evening.... All the houses put out lights to prevent surprize, and the Citizens not on duty slept as tranquilly as in the most...
...week's end Prince Paul did something more to his liking when he entrained for London to be the guest at Buckingham Palace of King George and Queen Elizabeth. The Prince and his wife, Princess Olga, insisted their visit was a private affair to see the Duke & Duchess of Kent before their departure in November for Australia, where the Duke will assume his duties of Governor General. Princess Marina, the Duchess, is Princess Olga's sister...
Whatever the cause, His Majesty changed his course and decided to take an even more roundabout way. Accompanied by Queen Geraldine, his three-month-old son Skander, four of his sisters and a suite of 20, Zog first went to Bucharest, Rumania's capital. The temporary crisis over Danzig caused him to stay there three days, but when things died down he proceeded on to Warsaw. From Warsaw early this week he was scheduled to go to Gdynia, the Baltic Polish port near Danzig, where he was to catch a ship for France. Onthelstanbul-Bucharest-Warsaw-Gdynia-Paris route...
...Sportswriter Joe Williams' words, "undoubtedly the biggest individual draw sports ever produced," but she was also Hollywood's third-ranking box-office star* with four phenomenally successful pictures behind her and another, just released, well calculated to ring the bell again. Sonja Henie has been called variously Queen of the Ice, Pavlova on Skates and the Nasturtium of the North. But no captioner has hit her off quite so neatly as did Broadway's knowing old verbal free skater, Damon Runyon. Sonja Henie, says admiring Mr. Runyon, is just a gee-whizzer...
During her ensuing reign as amateur queen of the ice, Sonja Henie won the world's championship ten times running, an unequaled record. She also won the seven European championships she entered, and she won the last three Olympic Games of her amateur era. She became a national idol such as Norway had not worshipped since Ibsen. Above the iron bedstead in her chamber in her small Oslo apartment hung autographed pictures of Hitler and Mussolini. England's Queen Mary and King Edward VIII were her devoted fans. Norway's moosey King Haakon took to telegraphing...