Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though the Duke and Duchess of York have thus far taken all Australian manifestations with unfaltering good humor, a very different attitude was observed in Dame Margaret Helen Greville, intimate friend of Queen-Empress Mary, upon her return to London last week from Australia, where she had gone to prepare the social side of the welcome for the Duke and Duchess...
...there. They are spoken of as 'pommies,' the reference being to their bright cheeks, which look like pomegranates, and 'low-downers.' I would most decidedly advise a man with a family and not much money against going to Australia." Reputedly such frankness has irritated Queen-Empress Mary, and, perhaps as a result, Dame Margaret was reported in despatches to have withdrawn to her estate, Polesden Lacey, Dorking...
...Bois de Boulogne and dancing on tables in Maxim's, and at the same time trying to marry a widow for her fortune. I demand the immediate payment of 50,000 francs [$2,000]. The film constitutes a serious libel on myself, my family, chiefly my sister, the Queen of Italy, and on my late lamented country, Montenegro. "Although The Merry Widow has been presented as a light opera for over 20 years, I have never until now raised any objection because the character of 'Danilo' has always been represented as pleasing and sympathetic...
...Teuto-Latin strain that they remind one of that fabulous being, the "typical American."* Thither, to the City and State of Luxembourg, there came last week the Archduke Otto of Habsburg, 15, claimant to the Hungarian throne (TIME, Jan. 24). With him arrived his mother, Zita, one-time Hungarian Queen and Austrian Empress. They came from the little fishing village at Lequeitio, Spain, where Prince Otto has grown up in exile, tutored by monks, supported by King Alfonso XIII of Spain and the contributions of loyal Austro-Hungarian nobles. As Otto's impoverished little suite descended at the Luxembourg...
...never read a Tabloid, I never hope to read one, But TIME, repeating all their smut, Seems trying hard to be one. This, of course, is mostly in fun. It will bear some thought, nevertheless. Certainly your reference in a recent issue to an "alleged" virgin Queen is about as questionable taste and as vulgar as anything which the tabloids are reputed to have printed. Its cleverness, if it can be called "clever," does not excuse...