Word: queene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty King George VI last week opened a new session of Parliament. In his Speech from the Throne in the House of Lords, His Majesty announced, among other things, that he and Queen Elizabeth were "happy to accept" the invitation of President Roosevelt to visit the U. S. during their scheduled trip to Canada next spring...
Buckingham Palace sources threw a cold douche on the hopes of enterprising New York World's Fair officials by predicting that the royal visit would be confined to a four-day stay in Washington. Tentative arrangements call for the King & Queen to sail for Quebec in May aboard the 32,000-ton battle cruiser Repulse, tour western Canada, then cross into the U. S. and head straight for Washington. From there, they are expected to sail on the Repulse for Halifax, N. S., before returning to England...
...brother, the Duke of Gloucester, accompanied by the Duchess, stopped off in Paris on the way home from an East African hunting trip to spend Armistice Day with the Windsors. Friends intimated that the meeting had been arranged and approved by King George, who has long been anxious for Queen Mary's sake to bring the Duke of Windsor back into the royal family circle. The King's private plane flew the Gloucesters from Marseille to Paris and the British Embassy arranged the details of the meeting...
...grew tired of the endless predictions of a well-known astronomer named Partridge. So, posing as Isaac Bickerstaff, astronomer, he made some "Predictions for the Year 1708" which solemnly forecast the immediate demise of Astronomer Partridge in one of the greatest hoaxes of the time. He outraged prim Queen Anne by his vulgarity in "The Tale of a Tub" which cost him preferment. But his "Drapier's Letters" made him beloved of the Irish, which was ample compensation. His "Voyage to Lilliput" laid bare society in all its smallness and pettiness; his "Voyage to Brobdingnag" magnified its faults to gigantic...
...regalia-black-plumed gold helmets, white crossbelts on scarlet tunics, long white gauntlets, blue pantaloons with yellow stripes, lances fluttering with red and white pennants* (see cut) outshone all the rest of the Garden's splendors. The fact that the Dragoons have been chosen to escort King George & Queen Elizabeth on their visit to Canada next year gave them an added glitter. To the music of Scottish folk songs (Bonnie Dundee, The Campbells Are Coming) and Irish jigs (Rory O' More, Donny Brook Boy), the knight-like Dragoons and their sturdy mounts cut centaurian capers with the precision...