Word: queen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skeptical public waits to see whether anything will happen. The Shah is considered personally honest. The Queen Mother, Tajul-Moluk, and the Shah's twin sister, sinuous Princess Ashraf, are acknowledged to have great commercial acumen. When, last month, Princess Ashraf was caught by French customs officials as she left France with 800,000 francs in her handbag after declaring only 10,000, many wondered how this could happen to so wealthy a woman. Cracked an old Teheran hand: "Probably habit...
...names rise above factories everywhere : Goodyear, Westinghouse, Monsanto, Kelvinator, General Electric, Pennsalt, Singer Sewing Machine, Carnation Milk, Ralston Purina, Kellogg. Mexicans flock to Dairy Queen frozen-custard stands in Chevies, Plymouths and Fords labeled "Made in Mexico by Mexicans...
...creation of tiny, taut Mrs. Rennie O'Mahony, who founded it after World War II as a patriotic (and profitable) alternative to packing British subdebs off to Paris to learn the graces. Ever since, socialites have installed their daughters at Mrs. O'Mahony's small Queen's Gate town house, whose front hall contains a collection of white china swans "to remind the girls of what they are expected to become." Their guiding light: "That our daughters may be as cornerstones, polished after the similitude of a palace" (Psalms 144:12). For such polish...
...enthusiastic work for the League of Nations, his work for peace among nations and in helping President Wilson in organizing the League of Nations," longtime delegate to the League of Nations, Lord Privy Seal under Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, son of the Third Marquess of Salisbury, who was thrice Queen Victoria's Prime Minister; of injuries received in a fall; at Tunbridge Wells, England. Lord Cecil did as much to create the League as any man but Woodrow Wilson. He regarded the American President as courageous but "rather dogmatic and not having a very clear idea of what...
...business of production-honey. They will sting, and when they do, Author Crompton insists, the bees know that they give their lives for a good cause. The most successful career woman in the insect world converts her useless ovipositor into a weapon of aggression-and self-destruction. Only the queen bee has it made. Not for nothing did Napoleon have his robes embroidered with the bee symbol: that belated Beelzebub knew who was Lord of the Flies...