Word: queene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your May 17 issue of TIME you refer to the Duke of Connaught as "Last surviving child of Queen Victoria," thus relegating to the realm of ghosts those two decidedly alive and grand old ladies, Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, both surviving offspring of the union of Victoria and Albert...
Three surviving children of Queen Victoria, if you please sirs, Arthur, Louise and Beatrice...
...Pullman. One of the kind with windows like a showcase. The kind you step into, instead of crawling into. In the front seat, a chauffer. In the back, two elderly ladies, carefully isolated from the hired helmsman by a glass partition. Black dresses, white lace collars and cuffs. Queen Mary hats. Windows scientifically opened two inches as an official welcome to balmy weather...
...December 1934 police officers marched up to the door of Captain Hatfield's chicken farm, arrested him. The Canadian Government had at long last discovered that the Gypsum Queen was not torpedoed but had foundered in heavy seas. It charged Captain Hatfield with larceny and obtaining money under false pretenses, asked for his extradition. For more than two years Hatfield was held in jail at Manchester while he fought extradition...
Editorials in the Catholic press are, of course, invariably uplifting. Headlined "Open Letter to Young Couples Riding Out for the Evening," most earnest front-page appeal in the collection at Rochester last week was in the current Queen's Work of St. Louis: "It's a beautiful thing to realize that two young Catholics like you are together. . . . You are bearing Christ with you, as you know, to your dance, the theatre, the movie, your club, the restaurant where you eat and drink, among your friends, into the car that whisks you out into the country...