Word: queen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a bystander yelled, "Hey, the guy's married," Queen Laura playfully pretended to wipe off a smudge of lipstick. Then she kissed him again, and a thoroughly confused Star Farmer was taken on a slow circuit of the arena as thousands roared...
Last spring, he married Libby Sebranek, a girl he had once crowned queen of the Garber F.F.A. chapter. Besides keeping house in their neat farm cottage, Libby does more than her share of chores. Said Ray Gene: "Never would have got the wheat harvest in this year if Libby hadn't run the combine for me." They get up at 4:30 in the morning and work until n at night. "Sometimes when we're not so busy," says Ray Gene, "We don't get up until...
Bashful Side. After he got his prize, Ray Gene was directed to a sleek yellow convertible that was to take him on a triumphal ride around Kansas City's Royal arena. He took one bashful look at blonde Laura Carol Tarrant, queen of the American Royal show, perched above the car's back seat, and tried to slide in beside the driver. Told that he was to ride beside the queen, Ray Gene climbed to his place and was greeted with a congratulatory kiss, planted firmly on his flaming cheek...
...blue. Before them, brightly uniformed guardsmen strutted to the music of proud tarantaras. Royal Artillerymen in bearskins and tunics heavy with gold fired salutes from the park, while cavalrymen with gleaming, upraised sabers marched jet black steeds. From Buckingham Palace in gilded coaches came Their Majesties, King George, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Elizabeth, to open the third session of Parliament under the Labor Government...
...General Dwight D. Eisenhower from King Frederik of Denmark went a bejeweled medal, the country's highest decoration, seldom given to anyone but princes: the Order of the Knight of the Elephant; from Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, a bejeweled, gold-sheathed sword whose blade bore the engraved leg end: ". . . in grateful memory of the glorious liberation...