Word: queene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cronin turned from organizing the wedding coverage on a master bulletin board to charting the causes of the social unrest. Correspondent Frank Melville, who has observed the British scene for 20 years, noted that "the ferocity of the street fighting seemed to challenge the very concept of 'the Queen's peace,' but undoubtedly the great majority of the British people will draw from the wedding a sense of pride and unity at a critical moment in their country's history...
...include the currently popular commemorative pieces that the family company has produced to celebrate tomorrow's marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana. The mutual appreciation that has developed between royalty and Wedgewood pottern began about 11 years before the American Revolution. In July of 1765 one of Queen Charlotte's maids of honor, the Honorable Deborah Chetwynd, induced her Majesty to order a cream service from Wedgwood. Josiah Wedgwood, founder of the pottery empire, executed his first royal order with exacting care, shepherding the entire proceeding, including the inlay of the glad and the floral illumination of the borders...
With this powerful endorsement the ware quickly came to be recognized not only for its practical value, but for its collectibility as well. Lady Diana's father, Earl Spencer, as well as Queen Elizabeth, are among its present day patrons. At Windsor Castle there is an entire room which carries, and honors, the name--The Wedgwood Room. Josiah's words were, at last, prophetic, when he said in his Experiment Book, "I saw the field was spacious, and the soil was good, as to promise an ample recompense to any who should labour diligently in its cultivation...
...meticulousness, an eye for legal detail," recalled Phoenix Lawyer John Frank. Added John McGowan, another Phoenix attorney: "She's a very conscientious, very careful lawyer." Some defense lawyers, however, found O'Connor's strict demeanor on the bench so intimidating that they dubbed her "the bitch queen...
...gestures and grunts. The enamored young couple, Ferdinand (David Marshall Grant) and Miranda (Jessica Nelson), who should breathe the spirit of nascent romance into the play, are equally dismaying. He seems like a rough and randy high school jock and she like a simp of a gum-chewing prom queen...