Word: queen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other events for the weekend are in prospect besides the Saturday night dance. Although nothing definite can be announced yet, the Committee has hopes of arranging an election to choose a queen from among the dates at the affair...
...consulting Parliament, disband his country's Army, sell all the Navy's ships, dismiss most of the civil servants, pardon all criminals, close all churches, create every citizen a peer, pick his own Prime Minister, and declare war on anyone he chooses. In practice, no King-or Queen-would dare do one of these things...
...spring all right. Ethel Barrymore, 67, picked the St. Louis Cards and the Boston Red Sox to win pennants again. Actress Jinx Falkenburg was crowned 1947 Radio Sweater Girl by the National Knitted Outerwear Foundation, which picked Nina Foch as Hollywood Queen. The New York Yankees crowned Operatic Soprano Helen Traubel Miss Symphonic Matinee of 1947 and gave her an autographed baseball. Veteran Muralist Dean Cornwell reported after a coast-to-coast tour that in good looks "suburban girls lead city girls," and have "better developed breasts, more streamlined figures ... a lasting, healthy bloom to their skin. . . ." Sweden...
...produced by John C. Wilson) and, what's more remarkable, flies backwards. Famed French Avant-Gardist Cocteau's "romantic melodrama" is outdated purple-&-plush palace theatrics, which starts off with a poet-revolutionist plunging through a window into the royal boudoir, and winds up with a dying queen toppling headlong down a vast flight of stairs...
...queen (Tallulah Bankhead) has been living secludedly, half in love with easeful Death, for the ten years since her young husband was assassinated on their honeymoon. But she and the poet (Helmut Dantine) who has now come to assassinate her, fall madly in love. He rouses her to life, prompts her to assert her will in her conspiracy-ridden kingdom, then cowers at the thought that their love cannot last. Finding that he has taken poison, the queen goads him into shooting...