Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...archer to another in the distance. To the listener a pair is two; not so to the archer, for in toxophily three is a pair. To nock is to fit the string into the notch at the arrow's end. To fletch is to feather an arrow. In Queen Elizabeth's time (1533-1603) archery flourished, waned. Not until 1781 and the organization of the Royal Toxophilites Society, was there a revival...
...short, everyone knows all about "King Gustav"; and it becomes preferable to write of a svelte and charming woman whom one does not hesitate to call, in homage, "Queen Kate." She, Frau Gustav Stresemann, was Fraeulein Kate Kleeseld. Her father was one of the great industrialists, including Hugo Stinnes, in whose service Gustav Stresemann began to grow great...
...enjoys the confidence of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands whose Foreign Minister he is. Straight and yet portly of figure, his manner is stiff-necked and blunt. His arrival to dine heavily at one of the smart, white-painted mansions at The Hague, is announced by flunkies, unctuously intoning: "Jonkheer Dr. F. Beelaerts van Blokland...
Though the jest seemed a trifle obscure, it had its elements of daring, for the Foreign Minister might have been referring to his Queen, his Country or both, or neither. On the whole, Jonkheer Beelaerts appeared content with his pleasantry, for he plunged at once into crisp, forthright comment: "True, gentlemen, we are adjusting a frontier dispute with our good Belgian friends. ... If I may say so without offense, it is the product of the War mentality. Belgium is claiming the two provinces lying south of the Scheldt river on the ground, that it would give them the control...
Died. Frederick William Louis Leopold Augustus, 71, onetime (1907-18) Grand Duke of Baden, brother of Queen Victoria of Sweden, uncle of the German Chancellor (Prince Max of Baden) who arranged the terms of the armistice, last of a line of sovereigns nine centuries old; of heart disease; at Badenweiler, Germany...