Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rebuttal came neither from Lady Nancy Astor M. P. (Conservative) nor from Margaret ("St. Maggie") Bondfield M. P. (Laborite), but from Britain's biggest businesswoman, Viscountess Rhondda. the "Coal Queen of Wales," Directress of Cambrian Colleries Ltd.; a peeress in her own right and therefore ineligible to sit in either the House of Commons or the House of Lords...
...Carroll who conducted Queen Marie of Rumania on her U. S. tour. Describing that trip, he brought a blush to the Senator's cheek when he remarked: "Senator Borah, you'll be interested in this as showing what a marvelous woman this girl was." At his first meeting with the Queen...
...Love Parade (Paramount). When Adolphe Menjou, dismayed by the prospect of playing in talking films, left Hollywood and went to live in Paris, this picture, which had been written for him, was made over for Maurice Chevalier. A captain of the Guards who marries a Queen finds that his share in the government of Sylvania is limited to what he can do in a boudoir. It is a boldly amorous, decorative, at times amusing combination of drawing-room farce and Balkan operetta. Chevalier does well with songs that would be dull under less skillful handling. Director Ernst Lubitsch has arranged...
...appendix out in Chicago. Mrs. Theodore Hoover, sister-in-law of President Hoover, had her appendix out in Palo Alto, Calif. Crown Prince Christian Frederik of Denmark, visiting London, had an abscess in his throat lanced, was unable to go to Sandringham to see his second cousins George V & Queen Mary. Col. & Mrs, Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Arizona air-explorations were told of in the December World's Work (non- fiction monthly) by one Edward Moffat Weyer Jr. The story: When the Weyer archaeological party was isolated in an Arizona canyon by floods last July, a plane droned...
Recently profaned in the usual way, the Sacred Flame of Belgium seemed to His Majesty so thoroughly polluted that he decreed a national ceremony for its purification. Present to assist grave, scandalized King Albert last week were petite intellectual Queen Elizabeth, tousle-headed, schoolboyish Crown Prince Leopold, his svelt, sophisticated wife Crown Princess Astrid,* and his softspoken, softer-eyed sister Princess Marie José (Jan. 8, 1930, was announced last week as the day she will wed Italy's mincing-mannered but courageous Crown Prince Umberto [TIME...