Word: queen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Queen Victoria (following the confidential advice of Canada's Governor General, Sir Edmund Head) chose Ottawa as Canada's capital in 1857. The late Goldwin Smith* thought it a poor choice. His snorted comment: "A subarctic village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit." Ottawa (pop. about 160,000) is no longer a village. Neither is it the "Washington of the North" that Sir Wilfrid Laurier hoped that it would be. It is not for want of trying...
...London, a weekend that blossomed with flags and bunting reached full flower as George VI and Queen Elizabeth rode in state from Buckingham Palace to St. Paul's and back. The occasion: their silver wedding anniversary. The King and Queen (and Princess Margaret) rode in a gold and crimson coach behind the household cavalry and full-dress Guards, helmeted and plumed, on jet horses. After them came a coach with Elizabeth and Philip. Salutes were fired; cheering crowds jam-packed the sidewalks...
...Queen Charlotte bought one of his cream-colored caudle sets (for warm drinks) Wedgwood's diligence began paying off. He got Charlotte's permission to call the line she liked "Queen's Fare" and to style himself "Potter to the Queen." Wedgwood hired the best artists he could find, opened a factory, huge for those days, and powered it with James Watt's newfangled steam engines...
...away craze, fired by Miss Hush and the Walking Man, reached white heat. Last week's prizes ranged from a burnt match to a "new future" (a completely furnished three-bedroom house in San Fernando Valley, a Kaiser and a choice of jobs). One program, Mutual's Queen for a Day, bragged that it had given away $1,117,000 in three years. With the pile of prizes mounting at every flick of the dial, networkers were not certain just how much was being offered, but guessed that last week's kitty amounted to about...
...King Michael of Rumania and his mother, Queen Helen, flew to London, after a month in the U.S., said they were not sure where they were going next. Michael on Americans: "You kind of see freedom coming out all over them...