Word: queene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because not even the Baldwin Cabinet's best friends could believe that healthy Queen Elizabeth would not be able to come smiling through a dozen Coronations and Durbars if required, correspondents were obliged to question the India Office closely. What about Sir Alexander Hardinge, the King's Private Secretary, only recently dispatched to India to perfect arrangements for the Durbar? What about the King's own uncertain health? What about Mahatma Gandhi's teeming Indian National Congress, its denunciation of the new Constitution now being given by Britain to her Indian Empire (TIME...
...this week, India Office civil servants officially denied that the Durbar announcement had "political significance." They officially admitted that Sir Alexander Hardinge was "sent to India in connection with the Durbar arrangements." Presently they produced a printed document superseding the previous official but verbal announcement in terms of the Queen-Empress' health. The original verbal announcement was not denied, but the later printed announcement reads for posterity : "His Majesty the King-Emperor finds the duties and responsibilities which he has undertaken in unexpected circumstances unfortunately make it impossible for him to contemplate a prolonged absence from Great Britain during...
...Crowned Queen of the Mardi Gras Carnival was pretty Jessie Wing Janvier, daughter of Judge George Janvier of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, previously picked as Carnival Queen of the Twelfth Night Revelers and the Elves of Oberon. Her consort, Rex, Lord of Misrule, was President Albert Barnet Paterson of New Orleans Public Service...
...Dartmouth ski team: the 27th Dartmouth Outing Club winter carnival (slalom, downhill, cross-country racing, jumping) from McGill, Montreal, a team of Swiss students, Maine, New Hampshire, Amherst, Harvard, Yale; on total team points. Carnival Queen, chosen by three doctors from the college infirmary, was Florence Allen of Birmingham, Ala., who had never before seen snow...
...Sixteen million U. S. citizens were groaning: would the Depression never end? In Kensington, England, two old gentlemen called on a young girl at six in the morning, to notify her that she was Queen of England...