Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Central Experimental Farms, just outside Ottawa, Queen Marie paused to read with attention a sign proclaiming that within a nearby enclosure an egg-laying contest was in progress...
...Queen, en route to Winnipeg on her 51st birthday, received the following cable from King Ferdinand...
...After leaving Winnipeg, Canada, Her Majesty's train recrossed the border to Minneapolis. There Queen Marie slipped away after her official reception to a little Rumanian church barely able to accommodate 100 people. Kneeling, she prayed and afterward conversed with members of the congregation in Rumanian...
About every other week, sharp-eyed collectors read a two-inch news item about a man named Huntington who buys things. Last week it was a collection of the letters of Mary Queen of Scots, and her son, James I of England. Other items have announced that this Mr. Huntington bought Gainsborough's "Blue Boy," and the best Gutenberg Bible in existence, and that very rare object, a first folio of Shakespeare, and a first edition of Hamlet, and . . . But the "Blue Boy" and the Bible aside, what sort of man, people have wondered, is Mr. Huntington...
...admired. Mr. Morgan had a very great library, a very great gallery. He is dead, and now the world produces no one else to match in the depth of this need to buy and hold the California gentleman who has come to own the letters of Mary Queen of Scots. If Mr. Huntington wants to read Chaucer in the evening, he can take down the original manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, in Chaucer's spidery, faded, careful hand, manuscript said to be the most valuable in the world. He owns the original manuscript of the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin...