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Word: queened (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strathmore and Kinghorne. Descendant of England's famed Cavendish and Bentinck families, the daughter of a clergyman grandson of the. third Duke of Portland, the Countess was the mother of ten children, six of them still living. By far her most noted child is England's Queen Elizabeth, consort of George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Postponed | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

Married. Elizabeth Schermerhorn Young, 24, sometime cinemactress (Queen Christina), stage star (All the Living); divorced (1937) wife of Joseph Mankiewicz, M-G-M writer-producer; to Eugene Reynal, 36, socialite president of Blue Ribbon Books Inc.; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...admirable goal for education. Solomon, he reminded Georgia's graduates, so pleased the Lord when he chose the gift of wisdom that he received riches also, 700 wives, 300 concubines, and "a prolonged visit from the most famous house guest of ancient history, the luscious and magnificent Queen of Sheba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Triple Ideal | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, 58, went walking on the beach at Skagen with her two fox terriers. When a mongrel attacked the terriers, the Queen attacked the mongrel, was so severely bitten she feared she could not go to King Gustav V of Sweden's 80th birthday party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 20, 1938 | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...latest book, Three Guineas, tall, droopy-eyed Virginia Woolf, longtime queen of London's literary Bloomsbury, ridiculed men's (meaning, of course, Englishmen's) clothes. Dress, said she, is worn by women: 1) to cover the body, 2) for beauty's sake, 3) for men's sake; by men: to advertise rank and position. Woolf on Englishmen's full dress clothes: "How many, how splendid, how extremely ornate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 20, 1938 | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

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