Word: queened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other city offices. The one which made his reputation was secretary of Mayor Hylan's committee to welcome home coming troops after the War. He soon became the city's official welcomer. For years no notable arrived in New York harbor-not Lindbergh, not Admiral Byrd nor Queen Marie of Roumania-without the press carrying pictures of Grover Whalen in frock coat and striped trousers, topper in hand, gardenia in buttonhole, steaming down the bay on the bridge of the municipal yacht Macom to extend the hospitality of the city...
...President Franklin Delano Roosevelt this week started U. S. Minister to Haiti George Anderson Gordon on a 5,500-mile sea journey from sunny squalor to scrubbed prosperity, from slender mulattoes to broad-beamed Nordics, from Haiti to The Hague, where he will be accredited to regally pink-&-white Queen Wilhelmina instead of to duskily diffident Haitian President Stenio Vincent. Saying an official goodby to Port-au-Prince meant having sent down from Manhattan presents for pickaninnies in the hospital patronized by Mrs. Gordon and choice viands including meat for the banquet Minister Gordon served to mulatto dignitaries...
...King & Queen trod the bleak Welsh scene last week, and were greeted with cheers approximately the same as for Edward VIII, George VI was seen to chat in undertones with Queen Elizabeth. Fortnight ago in Edinburgh his radio broadcast showed a recurrence of his speech difficulty-with pauses of as much as 15 seconds between some words,-and last week no royal broadcast was scheduled in South Wales. Never once speaking loud enough to be heard in public, His Majesty handed to the officials who welcomed him a reply thanking South Wales in 100 unexciting written words...
...editor, manager and ghostwriter of Famous Features Syndicate, 39-year-old Leslie Fulenwider had dished up and sold the "own" stories of such headliners as Mrs. Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning, Queen Marie of Rumania, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Nila Cram Cook (from Iowa to Gandhi and back), the late Mrs. Elsa Einstein ("Joys & Sorrows of Being a Famous Man's Wife"). Last week Leslie Fulenwider decided it was time he did something on his own. He arranged to take a parachute jump, his first, and describe his sensations in a syndicated article he would ghostwrite for himself...
...home he asserted himself by arguing with the Queen that the children should be allowed a little more choice about marrying. Max had fallen in love with a church social worker, who put him to work scrubbing floors. When the Cabinet learned she was the daughter of their worst enemy, the Archbishop, they threatened to resign unless the King did something about it. The King beat them to the draw by handing in his own resignation. On the day the King's abdication was to take place, the Prime Minister threw a bomb close enough to his carriage...