Word: queendom
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Best thing about the job: Co-ruling my own queendom...
...city of Woonsocket's quick abandonment of the term personhole for manhole [Oct. 2] gives hope that the United Kingdom can avoid the temptation to change its designation periodically to United Queendom or permanently to United Crowndom...
...then, would she reconcile her quest for the kingdom of highest literary standards with a championship of women's rights that might promise a queendom of intellectual anarchy? Her lecture, it emerged, was no attempt to confront contemporary women's literature on shared, upto-date grounds of counter-culture, or politics, economics and sociology. She embarked instead on a delightfully meandering journey through literary history. Along the way, she did not visit the obscure artistic achievements of some long-forgotten authoresses, nor mouldering collections of poetry by some oppressed New England saint; she preferred to scrutinize fictional heroines familiar...
...Publisher Thackrey hasn't got that much fertilizer-some $15 million inherited from her late father, Banker Mortimer Schiff-but she is determined to do what she can with it. Last week, she reached all the way to Paris and added a brand-new paper to her little queendom...
...Antwerp, fourth largest European port, the local Flemings organized last week their "Fleming Fascist Party." Platform : secession of Antwerp and Flanders from the Kingdom of Belgium and union with the Queendom of the Netherlands. Symbol of the Fleming Fascists (same as Adolf Hitler's): the Hakenkreuz or swastika...
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