Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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East of this room is the President's private office, or study, for generations the old Cabinet room. Here on the flag-flanked "Resolute" desk, a long-ago gift from Queen Victoria, wait the morning papers. It is a cheery room, with bookcases marching up the walls. Here the President receives his favored visitors...
Engaged. John St. Loe Strachey, of London, Laborite candidate for Parliament, son of the late Editor John St. Loe Strachey of The Spectator, cousin of Biographer Lytton Strachey (Eminent Victorians, Queen Victoria, Elizabeth and Essex); to Miss Esther Murphy, of Manhattan, daughter of President Patrick Francis Murphy of Mark Cross Co. (leather goods...
...That's Right." Next day as Queen Mary and her eldest son strolled through the British Industries Fair, they came to an exhibit of bright red British shoes, intended for export to East Africa...
...Majesty and Queen Alexandrine of Denmark had arrived in Cannes, after a state visit to Madrid (TIME...
Died. Admiral the Honorable Sir Edmund Robert Fremantle, 92, of London, "Father of the British Navy"; in London. Admiral Fremantle was the only surviving flag officer born in the reign of William IV. He entered the Royal Navy in 1849, serving on the three-decker Queen. His grandfather, Thomas Fremantle, captained the Neptune at Trafalgar (1805) under Lord Nelson. His son, Admiral Sir Sydney Robert Fremantle, retired last year. Admiral Sir Edmund's snowy whiskers often festooned a royal carriage at the opening of Parliament. On his gist birthday he criticized the wary tactics of Admiral Jellicoe at Jutland...