Word: queene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heart of the North (Warner Bros.). The Arctic Queen is steaming up the Yukon River with a shipment of gold and furs. And then? Bandits in fur caps remove its cargo. And then? The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who keep their coats on even when paddling canoes, contrive to catch the bandits...
...Friends could take in their stride such a job as helping to get the Jews out of Germany. Last fortnight Rufus Jones and two other Quakers - Headmaster George Arthur Walton of George School near Philadelphia, and Businessman D. Robert Yarnall of Germantown, Pa.- set sail on the Queen Mary, bound for Germany. They hoped to discuss the Jewish problem with German officials: with Adolf Hitler, even, if they could gain...
...everyone remembers that "Tony" Eden was one of the few who have ever taken First Class Honors at Oxford in the extremely difficult Oriental Languages. When Queen Victoria yet reigned everyone knew of the celebrated quarrel of obstinate Artist Whistler and obstinate Baronet Sir William Eden over the price of the beautiful painting by Whistler of Mr. Anthony Eden's mother. Today everyone knows that in 1935 a most important British General Election was won by the Conservatives, partly because "the country" believed Anthony Eden was somehow going to make of the League of Nations a shining sword...
...Karageorgevitches returned to rule Serbia after the Obrenovitches- King, Queen and five other dignitaries of the court-had been conveniently wiped out in one night. While Crown Prince Alexander was being prepared for the kingship, Prince Paul went to Oxford. His education there was interrupted thrice by wars-by the First (Balkans v. Turkey) and Second (Serbia, Greece, Rumania, Turkey v. Bulgaria) Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913, again by the World War, which began by the Austrians invading Serbia in 1914. Each time Prince Paul went home to take an officer's commission, each time he returned...
...soldierly Duke of Gloucester, best rider-to-hounds in his family, broke his collar bone when his horse slipped on mud after ably taking a fence near famed Melton Mowbray. Result: he got out of going to Queen Maud's funeral and smooth Brother Kent had to go instead. Still rooting for the underprivileged, the Duke of Windsor asked a British workingman & family to spend a jolly Christmas with him and the Duchess at their Château La Cröe, near Cap d'Antibes, French Riviera...