Word: queened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good Queen Bess's glorious days...
...pickets looked threatening, tossed a few tear gas bombs at them. Strikers battered a U. S. mail truck which they thought was taking ammunition into the plant. A few hardy non-unionists tried to crash the picket lines, best scrap being put up by irate old H. L. Queen, longtime company storekeeper. "I've got a job and I'm going to it," cried he. When pickets seized him, H. L. Queen sank his teeth into a striker's hand (see cut), was dragged away with bleeding lips...
...days after the Coronation, Stanley Baldwin hastily cleared a table in Queen Anne's Drawing Room in St. James's Palace for an Imperial Conference with the four gentlemen who are his legal equals. New Zealand's Laborite Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage, South Africa's General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, Australia's Joseph Aloysius Lyons and Canada's William Lyon Mackenzie King under the 1931 Statute of Westminster are just as much the King-Emperor's advisers as England's Baldwin. Invited also was Ireland's gaunt Eamon de Valera...
...vicar of the largest parish in England, St. Mary's, Portsea. This parish had a vast industrial population and employed 15 curates, but right across Spithead (scene of this week's Coronation Naval Review), was the Isle of Wight, and on the Isle of Wight sat aging Queen Victoria. Cosmo Lang was soon Queen Victoria's favorite preacher at Osborne, and his career was assured...
After luncheon at the Palace, the Queen tells an inquiring guest: "Oh no, the King and I are not the least tired." That night at 8 with London's millions back in their homes or celebrating in public places, the King's voice is warm and strong-and he does not stammer-as he ends the great day with a fireside talk...