Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possesses "the gifts of a high-strung nature beyond a doubt." With his incurable, withered arm he should have turned to a brilliant civil career; but, alas, the military tradition of Prussia demanded as Crown Prince a dashing cavalry officer. Worse still his mother, Victoria² (daughter of British Queen-Empress Victoria), was repelled by her son's deformity, hated him, and once remarked inhumanly to an Austrian nobleman: "You can scarcely imagine how I admire your handsome, intelligent and graceful Crown Prince³ when I see . . . my uncouth, lumpish son William...
Even liberal Protestants, to whom veneration of Mary, the mother of Jesus, is nothing short of idolatry, were shocked; Roman Catholics, firm in their faith in Mary, Queen in heaven of the hierarchy of saints, might have answered as before: "Outsiders can never understand our faith, our veneration of the Blessed Virgin...
...premiere of "Gentlemen, the Queen" will be on April 6, Graduates' Night, and will not be open to the public. The first public performance will be on Thursday, April 7, at 8.15 o'clock in the Hasty Pudding Clubhouse. It will play there until the following Thursday and then go on tour, giving performances at the Academy of Music in Northampton on April 16, the Penn Athletic Club in Philadelphia on April 21, and the Mecca Temple in New York on April...
...Wilson '27, who starred as Shirley in "1776" last year, plays Queen Elizabeth, the title role of the present show, George Higginson '27 plays the part of Ramon, the Spanish ambassador to the English court, while C. E. Henderson '28, besides his specialty work on the piano, takes the role of the Jester. Franklin Dexter '28 portrays the character of Shakespeare...
...Queen Mamie of Monomania is played by E. deS. Melcher '28, while the ingenue role is done by M. B. Wells '28, as Lady Evelyn. A. S. Bigelow '29 is the young hero of the play and takes the part of Lord Essex and Sir Walter Raleigh is played by Donald Murchie...