Word: queen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After months of planning, King George, Queen Elizabeth and their two daughters were off to South Africa to shine politely on a tottering Empire and prove to the world that Britain's exports were second to nobody...
...instantly debauched into slush on the streets. Open horse-drawn coaches were abandoned in favor of the family's cosy Daimlers. But in drab Waterloo, draped with tattered bunting, crowds stood shivering six-deep to watch the farewells. Before a royal Pullman smothered in hyacinths and cyclamen, the Queen pecked at her relatives, King George exchanged a last affable word with the Prime Minister, and the Princesses in girlish blue and rose beamed with excitement. Just as the train pulled out for Portsmouth, the clouds parted and a shaft of feeble, wintry sunlight strained through the dirty glass...
...they all wanted to make their fame & fortune in the U.S. For singing with the official-sounding "United States Opera Company," Ottavio Scotto, a Chicago opera impresario who once managed Enrico Caruso and Claudia Muzio, offered salaries up to $1,000 a performance and first-class passage on the Queen Elizabeth...
Died. Edwin Fisher, 63, British financier, High Sheriff of Sussex, chairman (from 1936) of Barclays Bank Ltd., one of the world's largest and farthest-flung; of a cerebral hemorrhage, after being stricken at Buckingham Palace during an audience with Queen Elizabeth; in London...
...R.A.F. pilot, Deborah's husband, Anthony C. Bartley, had shot down 15 confirmed planes. But in her new studio's opinion, it was inadvisable to risk flying flesh & blood that is worth many times its weight in gold. So Deborah and Tony crossed on the Queen Elizabeth...