Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elizabeth, continued their placid, adequate existence. He often pounds a type- writer-often reads his poems in Chinese magazines. She (never an Empress, for they were not married until 1923) possesses a physical beauty as striking as his own good looks. Because of his admiration for Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth he has bestowed upon himself and his consort the given names of those spry sovereigns...
Their Rumanian Majesties removed from Bucharest, last week, to Bled, the summer capital of Yugoslavia. There, Queen Marie of Rumania settled down for a visit with her daughter, young Queen Marie of Yugoslavia. "The mother-in-law of the Balkans," 51, will visit in September, it was announced, that nation to whose citizens her face is familiar through mammoth cosmetic advertisements and syndicated press matter-the U. S. Meanwhile King Ferdinand of Rumania set out to visit Paris, Switzerland, Rome, the Vatican. Despatches reported an allegedly not serious clash between potent bands of Bulgarian bandits and Rumanian frontier guards...
Died. Miss Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, "the uncrowned queen of Irak...
...holy man and begun the legend of Manuel, making him out ridicuously admirable for posterity, as a pious widow should. Gonfal of Naimes is told to go southward and does so, becoming a champion of misadventure among the Transcendentalists of Inis Dahut, enjoying the favors of their dark queen, Morvyth, while younger, less sensible men scour the earth for some marvelous token that will win her hand...
...heard in Buckingham Palace. Bandy-legged lackeys scurried through the musty state apartments, squeezing little bulbs, spraying clouds of "Court Perfume." Soon the tropical fragrance of this secretly compounded essence expanded and dispersed itself. All was in readiness for Their Majesties Third Court of the present season. The Queen-Empress, seated before her dressing table, pondered the advisability of adding the Koh-i-nor to her already diamond-bespangled toilet. She may have reflected that the Koh-i-nor weighs only 106 1/16 carats. She perhaps yearned secretly for the 516 ½ carat fragment of the 3025 ¾ carats (before...