Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naming princes is a ticklish task. On account of the Irish it was necessary to include "Patrick" among the seven given names of Edward of Wales. On account of the Slovenes plump Queen Marie of Jugoslavia was obliged, last week, to select a Slovene appellation as the principal name of her lately born third son (TIME, July...
...might have stepped out of the frame Of the portrait of the most handsome courtier who ever graced the court of a queen." Thus has Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden described the Empire's most important bachelor, potent patrician Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England...
Every courtier must have his queen, and Bachelor Norman's is a fussy old lady in a mythical lace cap?a sort of financial Queen Victoria. Her age is 235. In the bustling City of London she has been affectionately called for generations "The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street." In all her life she has never kept a favorite as long as the nine years she has kept Montagu Collet Norman. Courtier Norman was defending his Old Lady against concerted attacks on her gold reserve?especially against the attacks of ungallant Neighbor France...
...Buxom Queen Marie's stern consort, Alexander I, is called "King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes"?three peoples commonly called "Jugoslavs" (southern Slavs) for short. The potent, ruthless Serbs are the dominant race. Therefore the first son of Their Majesties?their chubby, five-year-old Crown Prince?bears the grand old Serbian name of PETER. When a second man-child was born (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928) the Croats got their innings, for the babe was soon Croatianly christened TOMISLAV. With Serbs and Croats satisfied it was high time, last week, to think of appeasing the Slovenes. Anxiously Queen...
...face and a hooked nose. He plays a dashing, "romantic" game; seldom draws but often loses. Marshall's style is fascinating to the onlooker, but usually does not finish him high up among first class players. He invented what is known as the Cambridge Springs variation in the Queen's Gambit. Marshall is also a bridge expert with a fondness for No Trump bids...