Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have no desire to enter the private life of the royal family," announced a leading Hague newspaper primly one day last week. "The Queen's living room at least should be out of the sight and hearing of those who have nothing to do in there," echoed another. Thus gingerly did Dutch newspapers take note of what elsewhere was sensational headline news. A long-standing royal secret was at last out in the open...
Idyl at Soestdijk. To all outward appearances, no ruling house in Europe can boast the solid, sobersided respectability of the Dutch House of Orange-Nassau. For an aggregate of 66 years, its last two Queens have reigned with the placidity of huisvrouwen. The marriage of the present Queen Juliana,who succeeded to the throne at the retirement of her mother Wilhelmina in 1948, to German Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld (a former I.G. Farben representative) was long acclaimed as one of the happiest in Europe. Sentimental Dutch editors were known to refer to their conjugal life at the royal residence...
...German birth was a handicap to him among some of his wife's subjects, even though he worked long and hard in England to weld the Dutch resistance forces into an effective unit during World War II. He liked the gay life and fast cars; his Queen was motherly, deeply religious and serious. In 1947 the couple faced a domestic tragedy in the birth of their fourth daughter, Princess Maria Christina (nicknamed Ma-rijke). As a result of German measles suffered by her mother during pregnancy, the little princess was born with cataracts on both eyes. Doctors were able...
...Loyalty Review Board (to which he was appointed by Harry Truman to counter Republican charges that the Administration was harboring disloyal employees), World War I aviator, history teacher (at Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Johns Hopkins), explorer-author (Lost City of the Incas) and biographer (Elihu Yale-The American Nabob of Queen Square); after long illness; in Washington. Tall (6 ft. 4 in.), scholarly Hiram Bingham was one of four legislators censured by the U.S. Senate in its 167-year history (the others: South Carolina's John L. McLaurin and Benjamin ("Pitchfork Ben") Tillman, 1902; Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy...
Nobel Prize poet Thomas Stearns Eliot '10 was reported resting comfortably in a London Hospital yesterday, after he had been removed from the liner Queen Mary at Southhampton. Returning from an April lecture at the University of Minnesota and from visits to relatives in Cambridge, he was stricken with a coronary late last week while on the high seas...