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Word: queened (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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George V's preference for Daimlers dates from the purchase of a one-cylinder car of that make by his father, Edward VII. That young iconoclast, Edward of Wales, owns a Rolls-Royce town car, but like his father uses a Crossley in the field. The Sovereign's sister, Queen Maud of Norway, recently gave her son, Crown Prince Olaf, a U. S. Marmon sedan (purchased in London) for a wedding present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royal Motors | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania still has the Lincoln which Henry Ford gave her. Patriotic King Albert has a Belgian Minerva but more often rides a motorcycle (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royal Motors | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...that Dr. Henry van Dyke '73 has been "awarded the distinction" of being chosen for the Collegiate Hall of Fame in the current issue of that magazine, where his picture will be featured along with those of the most prominent co-ed on the Floating University, a Junior Prom Queen of the Middle West, an All-American football player and other notables. We can appreciate the desire of the editors to make their Hall of Fame as representative as possible; but in their choice of Dr. van Dyke they have gone outside their field. If they were compiling a College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Hall of Fame" | 4/30/1929 | See Source »

...Death should come soon and suddenly to three men-George V. Edward of Wales, the Duke of York-England would have another Virgin Queen Elizabeth. Last week, romping in a yellow frock, the Princess Elizabeth passed her third birthday. She does not know that she is but three removes from the Throne; in fact she has only very recently discovered that she is a "P'incess." It is barely a fortnight ago that she knocked with chubby fist upon a door, and when her mother called "Who's there?" answered in an important little voice, "Lilybet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: P'incess Is Three | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...Best known Canadian institutions are the Universities - Toronto, New Brunswick, Manitoba, Ottawa, McGill, Queen's, Trinity, Victoria, Laval, Dalhousie. † Approximately 200 U. S. magazines and 30 newspapers are sold regularly in Canada. For U. S. magazines Canada spends some $15,000,000 yearly; for British magazines, some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Canada's Council | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

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