Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Indies. A 45-member House of Representatives will be chosen in elections, the first next March 25, and the members will select a Prime Minister. But the 19-member Senate will be appointed by Lord Hailes, and it can hold up the House's legislation. As Queen's representative, the Governor General will have the veto over finance bills...
...spot for the fifth year in a row was Mrs. William S. Paley, wife of CBS's board chairman, closely trailed by two other perennials, the Duchess of Windsor and supersocial Mrs. Winston Guest. Soon after them came the year's big surprise: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, making her first appearance in the best-dressed list and more than outdistancing her unmentioned sister, Princess Margaret (tied for No. 9 last year). Among other women saluted for their "distinguished taste in dress without ostentation or extravagance": wispy Cinemite Audrey (Love in the Afternoon) Hepburn, Mrs. Henry Ford...
Next day most of the papers were in full, ecstatic cry. Headlined the News Chronicle: THE QUEEN'S TV TRIUMPH! Cheered the Daily Sketch: "The Queen knocks those critics cold!" The only faultfinder was Donald Edgar of the Daily Express. Why, asked Edgar, had not someone the sense to tell the Queen that her dress ("It was fussy with that great big bow") was wrong for TV? Why was her makeup...
...Queen's loyal subjects clearly liked Elizabeth just as she was. Said a cockney cab driver: "I vote Labor every time. But there's nothing like our Queen. No President could talk like that and mean what she means to everyone." A university student was even more choked up: "She really shot back at her critics. After hearing her, my Dad said to me, 'Ruddy good show, that,' and that's just what...
...Union, in 1948, after suffrage had been broadened, took over the legislature (the party now holds 15 of 24 seats). In 1954 he got the title of Prime Minister, and last year he was knighted. He boasts that "the spirit of feudalism that ruled Barbados is as dead as Queen Anne." But with 230,000 people jammed onto an island 14 by 21 miles in size, Barbados is still among the poorer areas of the West Indies. Its best hope: relaxation of immigration bars by other islands once federation begins working. Adams will be among the top three...