Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instance, in your May 14 issue, 3rd column, page 18, what possible excuse have you for referring to the late Queen Victoria of England as "dumpy"; the word lacks respect when it refers to that beloved ruler of a Great Nation who during her life was described as "the most Queenly woman and the most womanly Queen of her time...
Soon costly and significant gifts were bestowed upon the Royal Afghans. For Queen Thuraya two Angora cats of super-best breed, next an even softer, silkier present: a pile of rugs made from the pelts of famed and rare Angora goats...
King Amanullah and Queen Thuraya of Afghanistan emerged, last week, from Soviet Russia. From Moscow via the Crimea and the Black Sea they came to Constantinople, then plunged inland to Angora, the new capital of the Turkish Republic. There King Amanullah, called "The Peace of God" had his hand warmly shaken and both cheeks soundly kissed by the Ghazi, "The Victorious One," President Mustafa Kemal Pasha...
Thereupon, a treaty of alliance between Turkey & Afghanistan was signed, and shortly afterward the King & Queen set out for Afghanistan and their own capital, Kabul...
...ranks of Buchmanism are by no means filled with the sons of the humble; the founder of the sect has an attraction if not a predilection for the rich and for crowned heads. His influence upon the members of the Royal House of Rumania has been marked and apparent. Queen Marie, at whose palace Frank Buchman has made long visits, talks with the fetching lack of reserve which characterizes the true Buchmanite, while her second son, weak-chinned Prince Nicholas, one of the regents of Rumania and uncle to small