Word: queened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Prince Xavier stayed on in Rightist Spain, however, not only Legitimists but powerful London friends of Franco became alarmed. After all, the mother of Legitimist Juan is a British princess who today lives in London, receiving full honors from the royal family as Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain. Last week's Rightist announcement at Gibraltar said the Carlist Pretender had been expelled from Rightist Spain for engaging in "political activities...
...Queen Elizabeth does not fly because she is afraid of becoming airsick. George VI dislikes flying and the Cabinet does not want him in the air. As a result, any air trip of the King becomes a national event and the King's pilot-Captain of the King's Flight-holds one of the softest jobs in England...
...scorned him as unworthy of chivalry by having his banner, surcoat, helmet and sword removed from the chapel of the Order of the Garter at Windsor. The text of this message was not revealed but its signature was announced with pride: "Bertie, May, and Elizabeth" (i. e., George VI, Queen Mother Mary, and Queen Elizabeth...
...firms for $732,000, plus an estimated $40,000 for the journey to the scrap yard. At the helm of a big ship for the last time, Captain Binks lamented: "I know ships of her type do not pay these days, with such vessels as the Normandie and the Queen Mary and other new ships. But I do feel sad to realize their day is gone, because my day has gone...
...poor wages and strait-jacket discipline of English waiters, but harder to stomach the double-dyed snobbery of his fellows, the hyper-finickiness of aged guests. He was mighty glad to go to sea again. Three months after her maiden voyage he made a trip on the Queen Mary. It was his hardest job. Eighteen-hour shifts, plus the teeth-rattling vibration in crew quarters directly over the propellers, made him pine for land once more...