Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Northern Rhodesia (so named after its exploiter, Cecil John Rhodes). Between Elizabethville and Port Franc-qui (named after the rehabilitator of Belgium's currency, former Finance Minister Emile Francqui) lie the Katanga Mountains, rich in copper, and over them runs a 660 mile long railway which King & Queen proceeded to inaugurate. Local copper executives dolefully informed His Majesty that their Blackamoor miners have tribally combined to enforce a ruinous wage of 12? per day - the standard pay for such labor elsewhere in the Congo being...
Dutch courtiers know a story of how the little Princess made herself Queen of the Netherlands by a single bold stroke. Senile King Willem had been paying court to her elder sister, Princess Helen, who tactfully refused him on account of his age and reputation. At this crucial moment young blooming Princess Emma is said to have entered the room, exclaiming reproachfully, "Oh Helen, / should never refuse to be a queen!" To counteract the sensation produced by this generally believed tale, Princess Emma's mother herself arranged to convey a subsequently made proposal of marriage from King Willem...
More than three miles tall, the "Mountains of the Moon" tower above Central Africa, regal in tremendous ermine robes of perpetual snow. Last week a white King & Queen passed with the pomp of a state visit before the white Moon Mountains. Black buck Negroes and black buxom Negresses prostrated themselves, as was fitting, before His Majesty Albert I, King of the Belgians and of Belgian Congo Blackamoors-and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. The white Sovereigns, complacent, were on tour through their Afric domains, which are larger in area than all Western Europe and contain almost as many Blackamoors as does...
...compel Uncle Leopold to grant them more favorable trading privileges in his Congo. Thereafter, as before, the fabulous wealth wrung from strumpeteered Mother Congo was lavished by Wicked Uncle Leopold chiefly upon public works* in Belgium ; secondarily upon his many and riotously extravagant mistresses; and lastly upon his Queen, Marie Henriette, "The Rose of Brabant," a great-niece of Marie Antoinette, a great-granddaughter of Maria Theresa, and "lovelier than either" -as gallant King Leopold often told her. . . . Uncle Leopold visited the Congo as Monarch about 1860, receiving abject homage. Nephew Albert toured the Congo in 1909 as Crown Prince...
Descending the Congo valley, last week, on their way back to the Atlantic, King Albert & Queen Elizabeth came, after passing the Mountains of the Moon, to the border of what is perhaps the Congo's greatest wonder: the "Pigmy Forest," also called the "Stanley Forest" and the "Great Forest of the Congo." Strong, hearty, cheerful, white men have not seldom emerged from a journey through the Pigmy Forest with hair turned white and mind temporarily unhinged by its stark terror. Darkness. The Great Forest is always dark. So prodigious is the foliage that even at high noon deep twilight...