Word: queene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Death in the Crimea, and climbed with Edmund Hillary up Mount Everest. Although it proudly displays the royal coat of arms on its masthead, in an 1830 obituary it described the standard of conduct of King George IV as "little higher than that of animal indulgence," and when Queen Victoria wrote a letter answering its criticism, the editors declined to publish it on the ground that they had printed one letter from her already...
...London Times. Founded in 1785, it still commands the attention of Britain's highest and mightiest. Last week, at the acme of a 200th-anniversary celebration that has already included two TV shows, a souvenir book and numerous encomiums from rivals, the paper played host for four hours to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. Dressed in a plaid suit and mauve hat, Her Majesty visited the freshly painted newsroom, known as "the pit," and chatted with dozens of employees, from reporters in white shirts to pressmen in working clothes. The paper's labor editor caused a brief commotion when...
...country on business. Flowers, Paris, beauty. I'd spend the summer in the Crimea. I'd wear clothes made in the West. I'd have children, a car and a diplomat husband. I'd visit Poland, East Germany . . . India. I wouldn't work ! and I'd eat like a queen." A journalist's son wanted to "travel throughout many different countries; for instance, it's nice to interview a (Salvadoran) freedom fighter in the shade of a palm tree." A second boy wrote, "I will be a pilot . . . and then the director of a trust just like...
...wild rumpus begin!" rallied Bok And so began the Cambridge officials trade against Harvard's expansionist real estate practices. From the stuffed filet of sole entree to the Queen of Sheba chocolate cake, councilors were unrelenting in their criticisms during the closed meeting...
Mystery writers are especially prone to follow an exceptional early work with loads of lesser stories. Ellery Queen's later books, or, more recently, the sorry sequels Gregory Mcdonald wrote for Fletch, show writers struggling to regain the spark they had the first time around...