Word: queene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emblem patterned after Britain's Imperial Crown. Thought up one summer night last year by Austrian Gamester Walther Marseille, an ascetic-looking Ph.D. who has trouble getting to sleep, five-suit or super-bridge, got its real impetus at the British Industries Fair last week, when the King & Queen bought two decks while the Duke of Kent looked on. Remarked the Duke, setting the test for future skeptics: "Bridge is already sufficiently difficult, without adding further complications...
Nieuw Amsterdam, Nearly twice the size of any vessel previously built in The Netherlands, the Nieuw Amsterdam was solemnly launched by Queen Wilhelmina early in 1937. Due to begin her trial runs in the next fortnight, Holland-America Line's air-conditioned flagship is scheduled to arrive in the U. S. next May. Almost exactly the size and speed of Britain's new Mauretania (see below), The Netherlands' vessel differs from the British ship in that it is streamlined, has egg-shaped, sootless funnels, and its $12,000,000 cost was met entirely without Government subsidy...
...Queen Mary was built at Clydebank, Scotland...
When Harold Nicolson (Paul Verlaine, Portrait of a Diplomatist) was a small boy, he believed that the greatest man in the world was his uncle. Lord Dufferin, Queen Victoria's slight, swarthy, long-haired, dreamy-eyed Governor-General of Canada, Ambassador to Russia, Turkey, Italy and France, Viceroy of India, amateur painter, architect, Greek and Persian scholar, author. Lord Dufferin died in 1902, when Harold Nicolson...
...Case of the Hanging Lady, George Bagby's Murder on the Nose, G. D. H. & Margaret Cole's The Missing Aunt, Whitman Chambers' Dog Eat Dog, Carolyn Wells's The Missing Link, William Gore's The Mystery of the Painted Nude, Ellery Queen's The Devil...