Word: queen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there was a gala independence ball in the marbled hall of the new Statehouse, where the Negro Prime Minister of Ghana, after assiduous practice beforehand, held the aunt of the Queen of England in his arms and danced a brief but sprightly pas de deux to the tune of Gotta Be This or That...
...check their criticism of Britain and the U.S. The Economic Review, official organ of Nehru's Congress Party, published two inflammatory editorials. The first suggested that the foreign policy of the Eisenhower Administration reflects the prevalence of juvenile delinquency in the U.S. The second, dealing with Queen Elizabeth's recent tour of Portugal, commented: "Elizabeth II is sorry that the world is not able to appreciate the hanging by the neck of Greek patriots in Cyprus or the butcheries of the Portuguese in Goa. We regret the low level of intelligence...
...Economic Review's remarks whitened not one hair. But in Britain, which still resents the fact that Nehru raised more outcry over Suez than over Hungary, remarks about the Queen simply Will not do. NEHRU INSULT TO QUEEN, headlined the London Daily Mail. Hastily, Nehru condemned the article as "wholly intemperate." Said he: "I am greatly disturbed that the Queen's name should have been brought into this, and I should like to offer my apologies...
...varsity hockey team drew up to the door of the Broadmoor Hotel last Wednesday, a group of bogus Indians in headdresses and war paint burst out of the hotel and started to yell and beat their tom toms in greeting to the Crimson's bus. The queen of the tournament with some of her royal court of Colorado College girls followed the Indians and began passing out cowboy hats and candy to the new arrivals. Thus, with the customary hoop and holler, another hockey team was suitably welcomed to the official NCAA hockey tournament...
What sort of English do the English speak? It is certainly not always the Queen's, says Harold Orton, professor of English language and medieval literature at the University of Leeds. Last week, after ten years of gathering material for a definitive Linguistic Atlas of England in the Mid-Twentieth Century, Orton and his colleagues revealed that had Gertrude Stein only known the farmers of England, her celebrated "rose is a rose is a rose" might have read a "rose is a hep is a shoop is a schoop is a dog shoop...