Word: queene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gullberg, official English translator in the Swedish Foreign Office, has published the first volume, a 1,246-page book containing 130,000 extensive entries, which is unique in that, where necessary, he renders the Swedish in both the Queen's English and the American variety. It has been hailed by scholars, businessmen, diplomats, technicians and others who work in the two languages. Lexicographer Gullberg subscribes to and carefully reads 40 English-language publications, including the London and New York Times, the Financial Times, the Economist, the Guardian, TIME and LIFE. His first and main source of new English words...
...Wedding. With a small voice issuing from a still smaller chest and her hair cropped as short as a boy's, she managed to convey a blossoming femininity, the seedling woman of passion and perception. She was a sentimental strumpet in I Am a Camera, a queen in Victoria Regina, a madwoman as Hamlet's Ophelia. Her secret is not true versatility-there is never any question that behind the makeup it is Julie Harris. Audiences flock to her performances precisely because she can mimic no one but herself; she simply takes on each challenging role and wraps...
...plot is surefire. Beautiful young Queen of Scotland takes a lover, plots to kill off her sottish husband, succeeds but loses her throne and flees into the hands of her homely rival, Queen Elizabeth of England, who throws her into prison and, some years later, has her beheaded...
...history has not made it clear whether Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots, was a wanton schemer or a woman wronged-particularly since the whole evidence of her presumed adultery and complicity in her husband's murder rests on the eleven documents that comprise the "Casket Letters." In this highly packed piece of literary sleuthing, Dr. M. H. Armstrong Davison concludes that the Casket Letters were frauds...
...plot to do him in. Suspicion crystallized into widespread indignation when some three months later she married the profligate and domineering Earl of Bothwell, believed to be her lover and the actual murderer of her husband. A group of Protestant noblemen, who had always been hostile to their Catholic Queen, seized Mary and forced her to abdicate. She soon escaped to England and threw herself on the mercy of Elizabeth, her cousin and longtime rival...