Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Wales. They held their breath as a policeman paused outside, rejoiced when he tramped on past the bleak rows of miners' houses. From a lighted window opposite, a man nodded curtly to signal that BBC television was closing the day's transmission with God Save the Queen...
...Excess of Fears. In Washington last month, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan startled a group of U.S. Senators by declaring: "I cannot go to the Queen and ask for approval of the evacuation of millions, many of them children, to far places of the Commonwealth until I have exhausted every other possibility...
...Sullivan insisted. "Form and function are one, and should be taken into the realm of the spiritual," young Wright replied, and struck out on his own. Soon adventuresome clients began going to Architect Wright's studio in Oak Park, Ill. In the midst of architects busy designing picturesque Queen Anne-style houses and neoclassic copies, Wright lopped off gables and pillars with a stroke of his pencil, created his own prairie houses. He flattened the roof to parallel the earth line, projected eaves to enforce the sense of shelter. Taking the fireplace and low. massive chimney as a central...
When Prince Charles, after two weeks of quarantine at Cheam School, bounded home for the Easter holidays, Queen Elizabeth noted a royal flush. Doctors decreed bed and isolation from the rest of the family until Bonnie Charlie recovers from a princely case of chickenpox...
Colorful Loyalty. The Cavaliers who fought for Charles I were gay, glamorous and morally unreliable. Charles Stuart was a double-dealing, handsome monarch, stoutly abetted by busy little Queen Henrietta Maria, who bore the lively title (created by herself) of "Her She Majesty Generalissima." Their outstanding general, Prince Rupert of the Rhine (Charles' nephew), combined style and audacity with grim efficiency. Parliamentarians denounced him as an ingrate; Royalists hailed him as ingenious, and his white dog was popularly ranked "Sergeant-Major-General Boy." Thus the Cavaliers held until the war's end a virtual monopoly of high spirits...