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Word: queene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Preparing for family summer travel, Britain's royal family sets a royal standard. Last week, on the eve of the farthest-ranging tour of Canada (44 days, 100 cities and towns, 15,000 miles) ever undertaken by a reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip read plentifully about the personalities and places they will visit. The baggage was mostly packed and at sea aboard the royal yacht Britannia, and all that was left was to kiss the children goodbye. As part of a last weekend at home, Elizabeth rode out on her horse Imp to salute the Household Guards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Comfortable Tour | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...immediate purpose of the Queen's visit is to inaugurate, with President Eisenhower in Montreal next week, the St. Lawrence Seaway.* Beyond that, the tour arrangers' purpose was to let Elizabeth see "something of the life of the average Canadian," and to let Canada see the Queen whose full Canadian title is "Elizabeth the Second, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and her other realms and territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith." When the Queen's silver Cornet touches down at Newfoundland's St. John's Airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Comfortable Tour | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...witness, he served up some advice for all young folks: "The new generation is better acquainted with Jayne Mansfield's statistics than they are with the Seventh Commandment . . . Slow down! Sex is a great thing-so long as it is not misused." Then, after he sipped tea with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace, Sightseer Graham was at last pinned down by an insistent reporter just as he was boarding a plane for Moscow. What "embarrassed" the Grahams: "We saw two couples in the midst of the sex act in daylight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 22, 1959 | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...publisher's warehouse in Milan last fall, Kalamazoo-born Conductor Thomas Schippers discovered an opera score dedicated to Queen Margherita * of Italy and tied up in purple string. In Spoleto last week, at the opening of Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds, he unwrapped his find before a capacity audience. Italian critics promptly hailed the long-forgotten work as one of the finest creations of Composer Gaetano Donizetti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Donizetti Revived | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...three years after he wrote the column, Columnist Connor played a part in the biggest Liberace show in years -the trial of the high-tuned pianist's suit for libel against Connor and his paper. Before an overstuffed gallery of matronly bosoms, Liberace charged in London's Queen's Bench Division court that the offending column cast reflections on his gender by implying that he was less than a man: "This article has attacked me below the belt on a moral issue. On my word of God, on my mother's health, which is so dear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Liberace Show | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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