Word: queen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They would more than make up for the loss of the great Queen Elizabeth and the Aquitania, which the British announced would be taken off the job of returning U.S. troops...
...Queen Mary will stay in the U.S. transport service, but Elizabeth and Aquitania had other obligations, which should be understood by U.S. troops. British and Canadian soldiers want to be sped home, too. The Combined Chiefs of Staff, reassigning the two ships, decided it was time to give them a chance...
...August 31. He had planned to be back in Cambridge for the fall term opening. "But our travel schedule broke down on Russian plane service almost as badly as our digestion did on Cairo water," said Elliott, by way of explaining his late arrival two weeks ago on the Queen Elizabeth...
Newsman's Education. Francis Williams, 42-he looks younger-is a Shropshire lad and a farmer's son, says he was educated "at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School and on the staffs of various newspapers." The first of these was the Bootle Times in Lancashire. When he tried Fleet Street, he couldn't get a job. So he bought a horse and greengrocer's cart, started to tour England, writing free-lance stories. These led eventually to a job on the Sunday Express. A piece he wrote about Sculptor Jacob Epstein caught Beaverbrook...
...Duke of Windsor, back in England for the first time since 1940, got an oldtime Glamor Boy's welcome as crowds of women (mostly middleaged) fought for a peek into his auto. The Duke went straight to his mother, Queen Mary, whom he had not seen for nine years; that night he dined with her, his brother the King and his sister the Princess Royal. Next day he visited the King for a 2½-hour heart-to-heart. Getting back in stride, he unlimbered his golf clubs, and made a tour of East End bombed areas...