Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Queen Anne whiskey, $3.75 per quart...
...recorded that a specialist at one of the great Army hospitals once told Queen Mary of a man whose face was entirely disfigured, and who in consequence had brooded until he was almost mad. If Her Majesty would sit and talk with the wounded man, concealing her repugnance, perhaps he would believe his disfigurement bearable, would cease to brood into madness...
...present King and Queen, then Prince and Princess of Wales, donned masquerade costume and attended a great ball at Devonshire House. George V, with his traditional distaste for dancing, stood watching some rather portly couples pirouette. "Humph!" he exclaimed to a friend, "they look like people pushing wheelbarrows." A distaste for even the slight subterfuge of fancy dress is characteristic of both Their Majesties. And, today, as King and Queen they masquerade no more. Paradoxically they are fated to wear at every State function robes and diadems more breath-taking than any fancy dress...
Florence Walton, famed onetime wife of the late Maurice Mouvet, now dancing in a Paris revue with Georges Carpentier, was photographed with him a fortnight ago as they appeared at an Egyptian ball. M. Carpentier, painted powdered and jeweled, was dressed in satin like an Egyptian queen...
Died. Henry Edwards Huntington, 77, California railroader and art collector; in Philadelphia, after an operation. He bought Gainsborough's "Blue Boy," a Gutenberg Bible, the letters of Mary Queen of Scots, etc.; owned the most valuable collection of first editions in the world...