Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...America is prostrate before our Queen...
...Queen Marie of Rumania, scheduled to arrive here at 6:15 p.m. the same day, should arrive a few hours earlier, she will have to wait until Kansas Citians have entertained President and Mrs. Coolidge and told them farewell before official recognition is taken of her visit...
...requires the careful ministrations of three capable principals to save the authors' bacon from the fire of public disapproval, and the principals cook to the queen's taste. The methods of the three are in great contrast. Miss Kennedy depends upon her ability as an actress; she is constantly alert from beginning to end, with never a gesture too many, and never a quarter note too high, so far as she can see. Sidney Blackmer, as Gregory Farnham, the American lover, twice entangled by engagements, employs the easy, off-stage air which distinguishes Roland Young. There is too much, physically...
...been said, and with as much truth as is usually inherent in generalities, that England has attained to her greatest artistic heights not under her kings, but under her queens. Whether this be a fact or not, it is undeniable that the pinnacle of English literature at least was attained during the years under "Good Queen Bess...
During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, English literature became for the first time truly English. Chaucer it is true took for his characters inhabitants of England, but if one reads contemporary Continental literature one may find the identical personalities. Shakspere on the other hand, placed the action of some of his dramas in foreign countries, but the characters are purely English...