Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simple people in the street that I love and that love me! They love me for myself, not because I am a Queen. In your cities, everywhere that I went, to Seattle and Chicago and all of the little places that I can't even remember, they broke through the police lines to clasp my hand and tell me of their affection. It is them that I love and to them that I shall someday return. ... I cannot look into the future, and enough unto the day is the joy or the sorrow thereof...
...Denmark was altered, and Christian became Crown Prince amid general astonishment (1852). Fortune's darling if ever mortal was, he not only became King Christian IX of Denmark but lived to see three of his children monarchs: King George I of Greece (reigned 1883-1913, assassinated 1913) ; Queen Empress Alexandra of Britain (reigned 1901-1910, died 1925); and the Empress Marie of Russia (reigned 1881-1894, aged at present...
...demonstrations, held first or the roof of the Postoffice, later on Salisbury Plain and across Bristol Channel, were so successful that the Italian Government invited me home in 1897, to demonstrate at Spezia, and in Rome before King Humbert and Queen Margherita, Again success was mine. The distance over which I could send anc receive messages was constantly increasing-first a room's length then a building's, a mile, four miles ten miles, twenty miles...
...married, my wife becoming a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elena, which post she seldom filled since our three children became a great care and besides, she used to accompany me everywhere on my yacht, Elettra, aboard which I experimented much. The year 1905 also found me perfecting and patenting a horizontal directional transmitting aerial and predicting that I could soon reach the antipodes more easily than nearby places. 1905 was also notable for me as the year of my company's suit against the DeForest Wireless Telegraph Co. (Inventor Lee De Forest of the U. S., subsequently...
Racing across the Atlantic to England last week, the S. S. Berengaria celebrated Thanksgiving with a dinner. At the Captain's table sat Her Majesty, Queen Marie of Rumania. At a small table, separate, alone, brooded Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, champion of the independence of women, mother of Consuelo Vanderbilt, who was onetime Duchess of Marlborough (TIME, Nov. 22, Nov. 29). Mrs. Belmont avoided other passengers; when asked to speak, refused; between meals sat reading. At times the book would rest in her lap, neglected, while her eyes saw far away...