Word: queene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Toward the close of Queen Victoria's reign arose the present agitation to create a Jewish state in Palestine, but for decades the grip of Turkey and therefore of Islam on the land blocked Jewish efforts. The crackup of Germany and her Turkish ally, with General Allenby capturing Jerusalem as a sort of 20th Century Crusader in December 1917, was the decisive moment, because five weeks earlier British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour had made his historic Declaration: "His Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will...
Kilts, tam o' shanters and tartans flooded Edinburgh with color one day last week. Doughty Scots by the hundreds had climbed out of bed before it was light and flocked into the streets to see a unique pageant-the state arrival of the first Scottish Queen to sit on the British Throne...
...sale by the two sisters who have clung to it since 1931: 68-year-old Blanche de Castille, Archduchess of Austria, and 63-year-old Marie Beatrice Therese Charlotte, Princess of Massimo. The necklace: a riviere of 29 stones with 13 pendants which the city of Paris presented to Queen Marie Antoinette of France and which adorned her throat before the guillotine severed...
...Crawford in five sets and then playing a red-hot semi-final against England's Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin in which Austin won the third set 14-12 before losing the match in the fourth. The final between Budge and von Cramm was interrupted once. That was when Queen Mary arrived at her box just after the first set. Two years ago, Budge amused Wimbledon by greeting the Queen with a wave of his racket. Last week, more formal, he bowed from the waist. Before the interruption, Budge had won the first set, 6-3, taking the last five...
Born. To Prince Alessandro Torlonia and Princess Beatriz Torlonia, elder daughter of onetime King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain; a second child, a son; in Rome. Prince Alessandro's mother was Elsie Moore, of New York. At the bedside of the infant, Alfonso and Victoria Eugenia separated since they fled Spain in 1931, met for the first time in six years, had a private lunch together...