Word: queen
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...lipstick, spotted by the eagle eye of an Associated Pressman and duly reported by cable and radio last week, was an all's-well signal that spread to the four corners of the earth. Such, anyway, was the impression created by frontpage stories recounting the reunion of Queen Elizabeth and her husband in Portugal after his return from a four-month cruise through the Commonwealth. No less than 150 eager pressmen elbowed one another aside on the tarmac at Lisbon's Montijo Military Air Base as the Queen's gleaming Viscount transport headed...
Bronzed and healthy after his vacation, the Duke of Edinburgh himself was casually at ease as he chatted with Portuguese diplomats waiting to greet his wife. When the Queen's plane rolled to a stop, he climbed briskly aboard, entered Elizabeth's private compartment, and, less than two minutes later, appeared again at the cabin door at a protocol distance behind his poised and smiling wife. A few minutes later, after a round of formal smiles and handshakes, the royal couple, apparently unconscious of the peering eyes of the press and the world, entered their car and drove...
LISBON, Feb. 18--Queen Elizabeth II began a state visit to Portugal happily today with her handsome husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, dutifully following her every step...
...Queen Sees Philip...
Civilization has barely scratched the Urubu. For the visitor this makes conversation strictly one-way, because talk about railway trains, skyscrapers or factories only bewilders them. Huxley found that the only Western institution the Urubus could appreciate was Queen Elizabeth's coronation, which he was required to enact again and again. Missionaries told the Urubu Indians about the Christ child long ago; but then the missionaries sailed away, leaving Maïr in full possession. Today, only dogs, chickens and ducks are deemed the creations of the Christ child. Everything else is ghosts and spirits-and an impressive ghost...