Word: queen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hartley Shawcross, who had given up all hope of catching the Queen Elizabeth, realized that the big ship was still at her pier when he cast his last vote. He telephoned the Cunard Line, made a flying trip to his hotel, packed, hustled to the dock. In the scramble he forgot his passport. His secretary got it to him, in a basket pulled up on a line, just as the ship was moving...
...Canadian farmers. Its kernels were tops in size, weight, uniformity and freedom from disease. At 66.5 Ibs. to the bushel the wheat was close to the alltime record of 67.7. For her wheat, Amy Kelsey got a loving cup, a small cash reward and a title: Wheat Queen of North America. She was the first woman to beat the men in 22 expositions, but that did not surprise her. Said she: "What...
Irving. But her Dolly Madison is every inch a movie queen: stunningly gowned, as icily beautiful as an East Room chandelier and twice as elegant as the Gilbert Stuart portrait...
...inhospitable to Hollywood exports. Last week, even before he had arrived in London, they told Walt Disney there was no room. "I am getting quite sick," wrote the Daily Herald's Chanticleer, "of all the publicity about Disney and his team of whimsical technicians, sailing here on the Queen Elizabeth...." When Snow White's creator finally arrived, Britain's press was waiting at a lavish combination cocktail party and press conference at the Savoy, paid...
...drawn by four grey horses, with the driver and two footmen splashes of vivid scarlet above the deep maroon of the coachwork. Through the windows the crowds could see the King in an admiral's uniform, sitting erect and wooden-faced under his gold-peaked cap, while the Queen, with her plump, pink-and-white face, powder blue hat, grey-fawn furs, was all smiles and gracious waves. The Welsh Guards Band played God Save the King as the coach went...