Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Windsor there were carriages, footmen in scarlet, outriders on stamping white horses. The Dawes topper gleamed in the sun. The Dawes smile flashed at jolly Britons. Soon King George was holding his first audience with a foreign diplomat in seven months. Queen Mary showed Mrs. Dawes the castle...
...Queen of the Universe' seems rather a large title. Miss Goldarbeiter would probably be amazed if she could see the young ladies on some planet one million light years away from this corner of space and those far off interstellar young women, perhaps 1,000 times as big as Miss Goldarbeiter, and each with 1,000 eyes, perhaps, would be surprised...
...Bookies with checked vests ran around the stand which towers at the end of the famed horseshoe shaped track Gentlemen with grey toppers peered through binoculars. The Aga Khan who two months ago offered $100,000 for Trigo was, of course, present. King George, who has been sick, and Queen Mary were not there. But Edward of Wales sat in a box with Princess Mary and her husband Of course, it rained. But Lord Lonsdale famed side-whiskered British sportsman and chief steward of the course, said that the ram made no difference. "The course was hard as iron," said...
...Queen Mary's birthday the royal family was so encouraged at King George's apparent recovery that they celebrated quietly by having a picnic at Frogmore. The sun was shining, but the air was chilly. Watchful attendants noted that His Majesty occasionally snuffled...
...went to Pondo Land. There he met a person much maligned by African whites, King Segow Faku. Dean tried to persuade this King to build ships and schools of his own. Dean reconciled the King with his ancient enemies, the Pondo Mesis. Then Dean went to King Lerothodi and Queen Baring, of Basutoland. He wanted to link Segow Faku, the Pondo Mesis and the Basutos. There would be a renaissance of the old African culture and civilization. Dean asked U. S. Negroes to send builders, educators. News came that all the other African Kings were gathered at Cape Town...