Word: queen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Majesty Queen Mary, 81, was still getting around well enough to inspect some converted London flats being occupied by lower-income businesswomen...
...past ten years, a slim, long-faced cockney girl with big blue eyes and a big blue voice has been the queen of England's popular singers. By last week, Vera Lynn's voice was being heard across the U.S. - and if she wasn't yet the queen of U.S. singers, she was at least high on the list of ladies in waiting...
Vera's singing when she began broadcasting with Ambrose and His Orchestra in 1937. But she really won her queen's crown during the war with a program for the troops called Sincerely Yours. So many of them heard her telling Private Bill Jones his wife was well, then following up with Bill's favorite song, that standard questions of returning British troops were 1) "What's left of London?" and 2) "Is Vera still alive...
...State Department publishes its own confidential beginners' guide. Sample information: a tiny coffee cup is a "demi-tasse"; a Queen, in informal conversation, may be called "ma'am," but never "madam"; only severants call a duke "your grace," to a diplomat a duke is just "Duke...
Gloria Swanson, 50, high-styled, onetime queen of the silent screen, had not yet faded from the Hollywood scene; she was back to act in a picture called Sunset Boulevard, her first movie in eight years. Her new role: a fading queen of the silent screen...