Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crown by means of a fake plebiscite. Said Papagos: "The only unethical act of my career." Years later he had to lecture one of George II's successors on the limitations of the royal prerogative: "Sir," complained haughty young Frederika, wife of King Paul, "you forget who the Queen is." Replied Papagos softly, bowing low: "Your Majesty forgets who made you Queen...
...dialectics and irony, there is something poignant and lyrical (because more pessimistic) in Giraudoux that is not found in Shaw. Yet here the two men touch, for Shaw wrote a kind of Tiger at the Gates in Caesar and Cleopatra. Each man saw worlds about to overturn through a queen's lure; in Shaw's Caesar as in Giraudoux's Hector, the great warrior is the great hater of war; in Shaw's Caesar as in Giraudoux's Ulysses, the wise man sadly grasps the impotence of wisdom. And both plays are as autumnal...
...late that Chief Baggage Master Vincent Jacoby tried to shoulder the orchestra's harp into a bus in order to get it to the theater in time, was thrown out by the bus conductor. (He finally made it by hitching a ride on a truck.) King Paul, Queen Frederika and their two oldest children applauded the maestro's interpretation of Schumann's dramatic Second Symphony, and Mitropoulos joined them for a chat at the theater bar, where Princess Sophie served him a glass of water (a Mitropoulos must at intermission). When the royal couple extended...
Died. Alice Joyce, 65, oldtime glamour queen of silent films (Beau Geste); of a heart ailment; in Hollywood...
...tall Lowell House senior hid himself on the Queen Elizabeth the night of June 15 as it departed from New York. From then, until it docked in Southhampton four days later, Hurst subsisted on food purchased at snack bars...