Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thames and dined at the Fishmongers' Hall. A rainstorm delayed the Wagners on their way to another dinner party at the U.S. embassy, kept Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich and the other dinner guests dawdling over their cocktails for a full hour. Wagner was on time for his visit with Queen Mother Elizabeth, however, and reported that the Queen "told me I could smoke, and reminded me that I smoked four cigarettes, one after the other, at the banquet we had for her" (in New York...
...sailing dates as a result of the seamen's and stewards' demand for a shorter work week-44 hours as opposed to what they call the 56-70 hours now demanded of them. As the week drew on, the strikers immobilized the biggest prize of all, the Queen Mary. Fuming with indignation because the shipowners had pooh-poohed the likelihood of a strike until they were comfortably settled in their cabins, hundreds of the Mary's passengers, many of them U.S. tourists, were bundled off the ship and deposited back in London, to stand holding wilted flowers...
...week's end, as the Queen Elizabeth headed in from New York to face the fate of her great sister ship, the government tried to end the seamen's wildcat strike by voiding their exemption from military service. One frustrated passenger on the Queen Mary could only think of what his favorite hero would have done under the circumstances. "Captain Hornblower," huffed his creator, bestselling Novelist C. S. Forester, "would have shoved all the strikers in irons...
Touring her realm's hinterland, Greece's vivacious Queen Frederika, in a sporty getup, was in gay spirits at a festival in her honor in an Epirus village, won smiles and applause from the townsfolk as she stepped adroitly through the paces of a folk dance, relaxed folksily afterwards...
...smile. A far more recent phenomenon is the ceremonial trip to U.S. museums. So much topflight art has funneled into U.S. collections in recent years that today a tour of major U.S. museums has become a must on the agenda of many a foreign visitor, including Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth. Japan's ex-Premier Yoshida. Austria's Chancellor Julius Raab. Arriving in Washington on state business. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer went to the National Gallery of Art for his fourth visit in three U.S. trips...