Word: queen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the first, Lew Douglas got along with everyone, from Communist Arthur Horner to Imperialist Winston Churchill, from the King & Queen to a 66-year-old miner's wife, who bussed him after his visit to a Yorkshire coal mine. At parties and receptions at Prince's Gate, he had the happy faculty of greeting each guest as though the affair had been a complete flop until the latest arrival. British Laborites were frankly delighted to have a man who was in tune with Washington economic thinking and could speak with authority for the official...
...King and the Princess proceeded more slowly, and the King's mother, Queen Mary, slower still. She, who understood the pageant best, sat on the jump seat of her Daimler where the crowd could see her plainly...
Fortnight ago, when Rumania's Communist-eclipsed young (26) King Michael and his handsome mamma, Queen Helen, flew to London for Cousin Elizabeth's wedding, he was asked if he intended to return to Bucharest. Said he: "I have heard these reports...They are not true. I have my responsibility and I intend to meet it." He said he would fly back Nov. 23. Last week the deadline passed, and Michael stayed on in London...
...absence of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, dowager queen of the Met, the press found Mrs. George Washington ("Tiffany's front window") Kavanaugh almost as impressive and much more cooperative. She arrived in her Rolls-Royce, reported the Post, and left in her Cadillac, basking in a sunburst of flashbulbs. When photographers bawled at her to count her diamond bracelets (she had made wonderful copy last year by losing one), she sweetly obliged. Said class-conscious PM: "She had on a chinchilla cape not worth a penny more than...
...Keller, president of Chrysler Corp., recommended to the President the immediate adoption of a program to build 46 passenger vessels in the next four years. Two of them would be 50,000-ton express liners of 2,000-passenger capacity, designed to compete with Britain's Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth...