Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With habitual gravity and majesty the Queen Mother of the Netherlands returned, last week, to her Summer Palace at Soestdyk, after completing a series of State visits to each of the eleven provinces of Holland. From the Zuider Zee to Zealand loyal Dutchmen had barked gruff cheers. And now good Queen Mother Emma was home in time for a placid celebration of her 70th birthday. Century-old trees, towering above the low, squat Summer Palace, seemed to rustle discreet congratulations to a Queen now almost as venerable and quite as upstanding as they. How much the royal trees have looked...
Ellen Terry was born, as it were, between an exit and a curtain call, while her mother and father were playing in Coventry. At eight she made her debut as Mamillius in The Winter's Tale, a performance witnessed with apparent pleasure by Queen Victoria. When Ellen Terry was twice as old she married the then famed Painter Watts. He divorced her when she had borne two children to Charles Wardell whom she later married. After that Ellen Terry went into retirement whence she was rescued by Charles Reade. From this time, her stage career grew to its zenith...
Engaged. Lord David George Brownlow Cecil Burghley, 23, famed hurdler, member of the British Olympic track team this year, descendant of the first Baron Burghley, Queen Elizabeth's Secretary of State; to Lady Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott, sportswoman, inheritor of a 400-year-old title; of London...
Into the harbor of Santander. Spain, last week, sailed the little yacht Nina, first to cross the ocean in the race from Sandy Hook, and declared winner of the queen's cup for yachts of less than 55 feet waterline length. On hand to greet the victor were the royal yacht, numerous other pleasure craft, U. S. and Spanish warships, dense crowds on quays and piers...
Louis W. Hill Jr., grandson of railroad pioneer, James J. Hill, and nephew of Queen Marie's entertainer, Sam Hill, was promoted to trainmaster of the Butte division of his father's Great Northern Railroad...