Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Handshakes a Minute. At the Washington reception the Queen shook almost 1,000 hands, sometimes at the rate of 27 a minute. Each handshake, accompanied by a "How do you do?" and sometimes a "Who are you with?", triggered hundreds of words of copy. The Queen praised the "vigor and vigilance of the American reporter," won a laugh by observing: "I am well aware that this visit has probably given you a lot of extra work...
...adjectives. Complained Hearst's Dorothy Kilgallen: "The only thing you can say for 'this story is that nobody can get scooped. I simply can't write 'radiant' or ''beaming' or 'sumptuous' one other" time." One day when the Queen looked exhausted, Reporter Kilgallen reached all the way to "fatigued incandescence." Prince Philip himself summed up the problem sympathetically in a chat with a knot of newsmen at the British embassy garden party. The reporters in the royal wake, he noted, "press and press and work all day and then, when...
...Comments Sir Gerald wryly: "Well, I sent it in, but it jolly soon came back." Reason was the academy's unwritten law prohibiting any work that might cause offense or annoyance to the viewer's religious or moral scruples. The academy's particular concern was that Queen Mary, peering at The Sphinx strait-lacedly, might deem it beyond the pale of propriety, though, says Sir Gerald, "For the life of me, I couldn't see anything about it to shock anybody...
...Overzealous officials carried the ball more than the players as Maryland and North Carolina lazed through the first quarters of their game before the royal visitors, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Then the Maryland boys remembered their duty as hosts, put on an impressive show to upset the Tarheels...
...beach is only a sand-flea bite compared to the other dangers awaiting dauntless Theagenes and Charicleia. She is determined to achieve her rightful place in the world, having learned that she is actually the daughter of King Hydaspes of Ethiopia. Because Charicleia was born white, her terrified mother, Queen Persinna, had exposed her on a mountainside to escape the wrath of the King, but a kindly merchant found the infant and saw that she was transported safely to Greece. Before she can make it home. Charicleia is captured by pirates, sold into slavery, cast into a dungeon, poisoned, sentenced...