Word: queened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., where he went to receive an honorary D.C.L. before dedicating a new international bridge across the St. Lawrence River and its Thousand Islands (see p. 34), Franklin Roosevelt declared...
Died. Pearl White, 41, and Warner Oland, 57, respectively heroine and villain of The Fatal Ring, Wartime cinema serial thriller; Miss White in Paris of a liver ailment, Mr. Oland in Stockholm of bronchopneumonia. Throughout her career as serial queen, Miss White never used a double, never visited Hollywood. Mr. Oland, who often threatened cinema death to daring, cliff-hanging Heroine White, won further fame as Detective Charlie Chan in a recent series of mystery films; Miss White in 1921 retired to Paris with a fortune...
Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper, English Tennist Kay Stammers, William Waldorf Astor and the Maharaja of Bhavnagar last week were racing against time. As passengers on the Queen Mary, they were assured by Commodore R. B. Irving that they had a good chance of beating the Normandie's westbound trans-atlantic record of 3 days, 23 hr., 2 min. They did, passing the Ambrose Channel Lightship 3 days, 21 hr., 48 min. after they had left Bishop Rock, off Land's End, England. Best day's run: 790 miles...
President Roosevelt (Mon. 10:30 p.m., NBC-Blue, CBS, MBC) speaks from Hyde Park, N. Y. to mark the third anniversary of the Social Security Act. Thurs. 11 a.m., receives honorary LL.D. from Queen's University at Kingston, Ont. 2:45 p.m., dedicates the new Thousand Islands International Bridge...
...finally in danger. He planned Stanford University as a memorial for his son, died soon after it opened, with his affairs in such bad shape that it barely got through its first years. His widow took up his long quarrel with Huntington, modeled her life on that of Queen Victoria, called on Huntington shortly before her death to make peace with him. That cynical old millionaire's office was so poorly furnished that he had to send out to get a chair...