Word: queen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia had just promised them a parliament. Two royal dragoons accidentally fired their muskets into a jubilant Berlin crowd. In the brief fighting that followed, 255 Berliners were killed. The next day, their bodies were placed before the royal palace, and the King and Queen appeared on their balcony to view them (see cut). The crowd shouted: "Take off your hat!" Frightened, the King obeyed. The crowd shouted: "Come down!" Again the King obeyed, and walked respectfully among the biers...
...remember," said the little man, "conserve your energies on offense. You can't rest on defense." The boys bounded up from the benches; clapping and shouting, they moved into a huddle. Hands piled on hands, players and coach recited a Hail Mary at abracadabra speed, ended it: "Mary, Queen of Victory, pray for us." Then Edgar Hickey and his St. Louis University Billikens were ready for the finals of the National Intercollegiate Invitation Basketball Tournament...
Divorced. By Anne Ferelith, Viscountess Anson (born Bowes-Lyon), 30, slim, brunette niece of Queen Elizabeth: Thomas William Arnold, Viscount Anson, 34, Grenadier Guards captain, son & heir of the Earl of Lichfield; after almost ten years of marriage (three of separation), two children; in London...
Ocean of Neck. The London Handel moved to in 1712 was a bawdy place of brawling and bawling. Handel did well at court. Queen Anne, who had little use for musicians, pensioned him just to spite her Hanoverian cousins. Anne's successor, lumpish George I, attended almost all his operas with his favorite German mistress and her "two acres of cheeks ... an ocean of neck." The rest of London was more fickle. Addison, who had written an unsuccessful opera himself, denounced and ridiculed Handel's music. Handel's rival, the egocentric Giovanni Battista Bononcini, kept him fighting...
Died. Princess Helena Victoria, 77, spinster granddaughter of Queen Victoria; first cousin once removed of George VI ; after long illness ; in London. A bright court figure in her youth, she helped hasten the change from the conservative Victorian to the gay Edwardian era by sporting colorful clothes, dancing the latest steps, taking in dog races and speaking her mind frankly in public...