Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Helena Springer Green Raskob is the mother of eleven children, is the wife of a man who made 80 millionaires and who now manages the Brown Derby. She is also a farmer. Several years ago in her native Queen Anne's County, Maryland, she decided to turn two worn-out farms into a paying proposition. Patiently she coaxed the barren soil with flax seed. This season her determination was rewarded by 101 acres of flax, characterized by famed Flax Expert George Lowry, as "the finest flax I ever saw." Neighboring farmers were, in turn, skeptical, respectful, imitative; flax raising...
...Queen Victoria once advised Cosmo Gordon Lang, long before he became Archbishop of York, to marry. He answered: "If I have a curate who is unsatisfactory, I can dispose of him, but a wife is another matter." Last week Victoria's grandson named the wit to be the 97th Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England, effective Nov. 12. He will be the first bachelor to have held that office for 150 years. Randall Thomas Davidson, present Archbishop of Canterbury, has been married 50 years. November 12 will mark the golden wedding anniversary of his wedding with Edith...
...Married. Lillian Leitzel, strong arm "flying-trapeze queen" of Ringling's Circus ; to Alfredo Cordona, gymnast; in Chicago. "We're going to entertain circus crowds as long as we live," they said...
...Forbidden Hours. In a land somewhere in the Balkans perhaps, King Michael IV (Ramon Novarro) loves a prime minister's niece (Renee Adoree). He is such a good king and his love is so sincere that the people accept the girl as their queen. It might make a willy-nilly musical comedy...
...fits, better than most, the gum-chewers' idea of a movie queen. They can call her a senorita because she has one-half Spanish blood in her. They can say she has famed "It" because she has often appeared on the screen without very many clothes (Male and Female). They can suspect her of fickle loves (Sprinter Charles Paddock). They know she is ath-a-let-tic by the way she bounces around on the screen. She may be classified somewhere between a capable actress and a capable clown...