Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those government leaders who went to London, two, India's Nehru and Pakistan's Suhrawardy, were notoriously incompatible, and a third-Ghana's Nkrumah-had just annoyed the British by substituting his own portrait of the Queen's on Ghana's new stamps and coins...
...followed his famed father in dueling along balustrades and skewering villains behind the arras, Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., now a London boulevardier, last week bagged a pride of social lions. The catch at Fairbanks' coming-out party for his 17-year-old daughter Daphne: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, and Princess Margaret with a new and eminently eligible beau, 23-year-old Lord Patrick Beresford, her escort at the Ascot races. Handsome Doug, whose swash shows no signs of buckling at 47, got the first dance with the Queen, also got a precedent-breaking (because Fairbanks...
...four times Liberal Prime Minister of Britain and, finally, to translate God's blunt, muttered injunctions into eloquent sentences of interminable length. History records William's success in all these spheres, but it bypasses his extraordinary wife. Catherine was such an attractive woman that even Queen Victoria, who came to loathe Gladstone, almost forgave her for being his wife. Every morning, when they were at their favorite country house, the Gladstones walked uphill one mile to church, William throwing sticks for the dog, Catherine reading the morning mail and dropping most of it on the road. William...
Slim and stately aboard her official horse Imp, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her official 31st birthday (she was born on April 21, 1926, but British monarchs are feted in June, when the weather is good) by reviewing the Irish Guards at the annual Trooping of the Color. The same day she announced her birthday honors list. New peers: Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank, Sir Horace Evans, the Queen's physician, and Lieut. General Sir Willoughy Norrie. Geoffrey Crowther, editor emeritus of the prestigious weekly The Economist, and Oxford's Isaiah Berlin were knighted, and peppery...
...other characters converge on Luala, Colquhoun stumbles on a series of weird goings-on-sacrificial rams and totemistic moles and a mysterious concourse of natives performing rites by a river bank. At Luala, near the sacred rock Bamili (where sacrifices had probably been held since the time of Queen Nefertiti), Colquhoun discovers that those who come under the shadow of this red rock are doomed to a sad fate...