Word: queened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week to read that handsome King Leopold III and his brother Prince Charles would next day lead a pilgrimage of many thousands to Marche-les-Dames where King Albert three years ago fell to his death from a mountain (TIME, Feb. 26, 1934), that the widowed Queen Mother Elisabeth would visit the spot after the pilgrims had gone. Troops, war veterans, civilian organizations were to be drawn up in solemn silence while King Leopold reviewed them...
Next day came, but to Marche-les-Dames went no King Leopold, no Prince Charles, no Queen Mother Elisabeth, not a single member of the Government. Reason for this sudden change of royal plans was that the Rexists, Belgium's two-year-old Catholic-Fascist party, decided at the last minute to use the occasion for a mass rally. Because royalty must be above politics, King Leopold and his entourage stayed at home while 5,000 Rexists rallied at the Death spot. Though Rexists take their name from the Latin Rex (King), they are not the King...
Northwestern's Charity Ball in Chicago judged, seven "queens" from seven big campuses (see cut). They gave the prize to the most patrician-looking girl of the lot-dark-haired, demure Joyce Kerr, 21, daughter of a drygoods merchant in Elmore, Minn. Queen Joyce is a junior at the University of Minnesota...
...tutor assigned "Hamlet" as a week's reading. When his tutee reported, the subject of Hamlet's madness came up for discussion. "There are three characters in the play who have theories about Hamlet's madness"' said the tutor, "The King Claudius, Polonius, and the Queen...
...said the tutee, "The King, Claudius, Polonius, and the Queen make four...