Word: queen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, Yakov A. Malik arrived on the Queen Mary, to replace Andrei A. Gromyko as Russia's chief delegate to the United Nations. Few passengers knew that he had been aboard. Cornered in his cabin, he told ship news reporters: "I am Malik, I am glad to meet you, but I have no comment." A sandy-haired, broad-shouldered man of medium height, Malik had been well schooled in Russia's robot diplomacy. He had served as Russia's wartime ambassador to Japan, most recently as deputy foreign minister for Far Eastern Affairs. What comment...
...when Mary Stuart, Queen of the Scots, brought her court to Edinburgh, Knox cried: "The preachers were wondrous vehement in reprehension of all manner of vice, which then began to abound; and especially avarice, oppression of the poor, excess, riotous cheer, banqueting, immoderate dancing, and whoredom that thereof ensues." Knox titled one famous pamphlet "The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women...
Listening to the Queen's weary voice, Dutch oldsters could remember her ascent to the throne as a girl of 18. They remembered the rejoicing and feasting at her marriage with Henry Wladimir, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1901; the birth of Juliana in 1909 and that of Beatrix (oldest daughter of Juliana and her husband, Prince Bernhard) in 1938. Most vividly, they remembered Wilhelmina's radio broadcasts from London during the Nazi occupation, when she heartened the underground: "The Netherlands will rise again...
Fanny Cohen, 4O-year-old artist, tearfully commented: "She is such a dear old lady, and becomes dearer every year. How I would like to lunch with her! When I met her I would like her to say, 'Hello, Miss Cohen,' and I would say, 'Hello, Queen.' " Said a Negro waiter from Dutch Guiana: "People come and go, but it will seem strange without Wilhelmina...
Tired but happy: Denmark's King Frederik and Queen Ingrid, after a holiday at their hunting lodge. The maid fell ill and couldn't work. A neighbor found the Queen with a dishrag, begged to help out in some way. Came the King's voice from another room: "Do not think of that ... I have to do the vacuum-cleaning...