Word: queene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could take home to his wife & children* was about a French schoolmarm, dating back to his great-grandmother's day, who expressed regret that she had not known sooner of his coming. Otherwise, she said, she would have taught her small charges "to sing 'God Save the Queen...
...would not detract from the deserving credit which is due Queen Marie and John and Vintila Bratianu but King Ferdinand was in fact King. He ruled as well as reigned. He was less dramatic than the Queen. He was less in the public eye than the Bratianus. But he was by accepted tests a farseeing and enlightened monarch...
...opening of Parliament by George VI, famed and beloved old Field Marshal Lord Milne sounded off, after the Speech from the Throne, against mollycoddle notions that the German people are only dupes and victims of the Nazis. Stanch old Lord Milne, who proudly recalled that he fought under Queen Victoria, keynoted that he believes every nation gets the kind of Government its people want or deserve and that the Germans have that now. "There is a deep strain of brutality in the German nation!" he boomed, roundly begged to differ with the large school of intellectual-liberals who said during...
...Great Britain the honorary president of a vast pyramid of women's war organizations is Queen Elizabeth, whose wardrobe contains a choice assortment of female uniforms (TIME, Oct. 9). Last week in Paris petite Eve Curie, newly installed as Chief of the Feminine Section of the Ministry of Information, made it very plain to the press that most French women, unlike their British sisters, have no time for flossy uniforms, showy organizations. From the French point of view, the fact that Britain still has less than 1,000,000 men under arms, whereas France has more than...
Died. Princess Louise, 91, Duchess of Argyll, great-aunt of King George VI, daughter of Queen Victoria, known as the "Royal Rebel" for her interest in art and for marrying a mere Marquis, later raised to Dukedom (first English Princess in 350 years to marry outside royalty); after long illness; in London...