Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When famed Elizabeth, alleged virgin queen, used to tour her realm, feudal lords would nearly bankrupt themselves to feed her and entertain her. But today, while Socialists control many a public purse string, the royal gambols are distinctly gambles. Only after long haggling did the City Council of Glasgow decide, by a lean majority, to entertain the King-Emperor and Queen-Empress on their summer visit (TIME, Feb. 28). But the Socialists continued to fight and last week the Council reversed itself, voting, 25 to 11, that there will be no luncheon at public expense for Their Majesties. Tactful, George...
...chances are that his eldest son Wilhelm, who is quite a fine young man, will be. Politically, of course, anything may happen; but I doubt that the Kaiser will ever resume a position of authority. . . . When the great War lord turned tail and hid behind the skirts of the Queen of Holland that absolutely finished him in Germany. If any of you have seen the Queen of Holland you know that she has quite ample skirts...
Honorable Great Queen. Meanwhile, as the week advanced, the holy Ichans (Priests) successfully rallied the faithful to combat feminism. They remembered not the benevolent attitude toward women-kind of Tamburlaine the Great. He, magnanimous, referred to his chief wife as "The Honorable Great Lady." When she entered a state apartment 15 ladies-in-waiting held up the perimeter of her enormous skirt of silk and cloth of gold to enable her to walk. Three more attendants steadied by silken cords her towering headdress, which began with a wealth of black hair, rose like an immense extinguisher bestudded with gems...
...very jovial was the manner in which a mob, roused by the priests last week, set out to discipline women less docile than the ancient queen. Three women who were caught veilless were bound to stakes and exposed to a pious mob which threw stones until the women died. One youthful male Communist was likewise bound, reviled by the Ichans (Priests), and beaten to death with flails, despite attempts by the police to rescue him. Kindlers of Asia. All over the province of Samarkand and throughout Turkestan similar outbursts were provoked last week by "Woman's Day." This remote...
...explain to the little Queen what "bureaucratic" meant...