Word: queen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consensus of entomologists is that termite queens are egg-laying machines (as many as 4,000 eggs a day). In some species, the queens' abdomens grow gigantic, like fat, helpless grubs nearly four inches long. Around the queen, worker courtiers gather, stroking her tight-stretched body wall, feeding her helpless mouth, carrying off her eggs. The king's only duty is keeping his consort fecundated...
...June 1940 that soldierly Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, Earl of Athlone (known to his older sister, Queen Mary, as "Algie") and his small, handsome wife, Princess Alice (granddaughter of Queen Victoria) took up residence in Government House. For five wartime years the Governor General and his Lady had quietly impressed themselves on Canadian life, performing viceregal duties with impeccable style and unfailing good manners...
...According to Novelist Gustave Flaubert, Satan once disguised himself as the Queen of Sheba, exclaimed to Anthony: "I am not a woman; I am a world. My cloak has only to fall for thee to discover a succession of mysteries...
...resembled Britain's Queen Mary so closely that when the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales, once saw her in Washington, he exclaimed: "Good Lord - there's Mother...
...Pert Judy Garland (Mrs. Vincente Minnelli) burlesquing a world-weary but oh-so-cordial movie queen in a dance-and-doggerel brush with the press. ¶ Tenor James Melton and Soprano Marion Bell warbling their way through the wine-cup scene from Verdi's La Traviata...