Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...liked "No, No, Nanette," there isn't much point in seeing The "Queen High" imitation of it. The music can be had on phonograph records, and the wise cracks, though funny in their setting, aren't pointed enough to repeat at Christmas parties. If you didn't like "No, No, Nanette," you'll be bored by this...
...Queen High" is respectable, comfortable and fairly amusing. It's just the sort of taking to take your mother to when she visits you for over the weekend. Neither of you will have the opportunity to blush, and the sight of Julia Sanderson again will make your ma-ma recall the first time your father took her to the theater...
...comedy as originally written dea's with three Princesses who were shup up in as many oranges by the Queen Witch whose machinations pervade the dramatic cosmos. The action comes when the Prince there is one naturally seeks for the oranges. It is while on his travels in search of them that Gilbert Seldes has brought him into contact with the modernism's which give the play its strong satiric flavor, and makes it well worth the attention of a student vagabond...
...bigheaded, slim girl of 20, Queen Victoria of England, signed a charter authorizing the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. to operate its 14 paddle-wheel steamers between England and the West Indies. That shipping business prospered although sometimes the new-fangled engines broke down and the captains had to hoist sails. When modern screw propellers were invented, the Royal Mail was the first to adopt the device. When there happened to be bargains in ships. Royal Mail bought them. Now its fleets, including the 500,000 tons of the White Star Line, count 2,500,000 gross tonnage, the largest...
...might chat concerning the aces or Bond Street styles--but would Calvin be interested? Calvin, on the other hand, could discourse with some use and a great deal of knowledge about the maple sugar industry as practised in the New England States; but, then, George might be bored. The Queen would no doubt want to be remembered to Mrs. Coolidge but such courtesies require only a brief time for despated. Certainly neither gentleman will open the question of debits or foreign trade--politics are taboo in polite social circles. It is a difficult situation when two parties of such different...