Word: queen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Queen Elizabeth, which also docked in Manhattan last week, 24 hours late, rode out the storm a little better: most of her passengers managed to keep their chins up, dancing and playing squash while the Queen climbed the mountainous waves and slipped majectically into the Atlantic's troughs...
...royal tomb, second largest and the oldest ever found, had been looted by grave robbers before the pyramids were started, but it still contained plenty of relics for modern archeologists. Crude hieroglyphics identified it as the tomb of Queen Mereneith, wife of Zer, second (or third) Pharaoh of Egypt's First Dynasty. Date: about...
Died. Eva Tanguay, 68, onetime bespangled, tousle-haired queen of vaudeville, whose raucous rendition of I Don't Care was top favorite with a whole generation of U.S. showgoers; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood. Nearly blind, crippled with arthritis, the remains of her fortune ($2,000,000) lost in the crash of 1929, she lived out her last years alone, hoped always for a comeback: "Say that I will be back ... if you will-back by Christmas...
...last week The Fairy Queen had established Covent Garden's opera as a business; now it had only to succeed as an opera company. Next week, as its first real opera, Covent Garden scheduled Carmen...
...want to go back to school. Blunden supplies attractive pictures of this adventure-of Harriet "ready to die of laughter" as the 20-year-old Percy, slim and shrill-voiced, stood on a Dublin balcony hurling moral tracts at selected passersby. A combatant for liberty, Shelley poetized in Queen Mob against kings, priests, commerce, wealth and war; he sought out the reformer, William Godwin, and in due course fell in love with his daughter, Mary...