Word: queen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press, Minister Konitza made the following statement: "The Italians have many admirable qualities and are a great nation, but God Almighty, in His inscrutable design, has deprived them of all sense of chivalry. Just when our Queen gave birth to a child, the Italians dealt this blow...
Strangely enough these words had fundamental relation to U. S. foreign policy. For the long-legged lady was Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt and the swatches were materials for dresses, presented by the wool-raisers of Britain and the U. S., which Mrs. Roosevelt and Britain's Queen Elizabeth will wear if they meet as scheduled in the U. S. in June. Mrs. Roosevelt's patient swatch-fingering was an innocent little act cooked up by the U. S. wool-growers' publicists. (Commodore Robert B. Irving of the Queen Mary acted as special courier to take Her Majesty...
...effective as any in the play--the Lord Chamberlain is exasperatingly hasty and foolish. Humor, too, enters into Mr. Graham's skillful portrayal, especially when the utmost is wrung from his interview (II-II) with the smooth, villainous King (Henry Edwards) and the sensual, light-witted Queen (Mady Christians). Only from the ghost, who--in spite of the effective lighting--falls between abstract ghostliness and the human wisdom and tenderness which Shakespeare intended, could more be asked. All in all, Maurice Evans' "Hamlet" is so good that, unanimously, the opening night audience agreed with his gracious acknowledgment of their prolonged...
...Caricature-1750 to 1850. A bit of hands-across-the-sea, this show was timed by its sponsors, the Anglo-French Art & Travel Society, to coincide with Anglo-French political rapprochement, as a similar show of English caricatures in Paris last spring anticipated the visit of the King & Queen (TIME, March...
...words over his new device, spoken just after he had spilled a bottle of acid, were: "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you." The picture then recounts Bell's partnership with Mabel Hubbard's father (Charles Coburn), his patent fight with Western Union and his meeting with Queen Victoria...