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Word: queenly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...furnishes a plot, and a rather melodramatic plot--but it, is really unessential. The longitudinal, progressive element in the book is insignificant, and the plot loses its claim to conviction in the happy ending, when Don Miguel, the omnipotent and implacable dictator, presents the heroine with some of Queen Isabella's jewels, in admiration of the really remarkable way in which she has thwarted his best laid plans

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fiction | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...Though Queen-Empress Mary must display impartial interest in hundreds of nursing homes, some intrigue her more than others. Particularly is Her Majesty known to approve of a certain super-spick-and-span nursing home in Berkshire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Monniker | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Alighting from her limousine Queen Mary climbed the stoop, pressed the bell. She waited some time, for a new, slow and surly Cockney wench had just been taken into service by the home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Monniker | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Shubert at 8.15--"The Queen's Taste." Reviewed in this issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 10/3/1928 | See Source »

...Atlantic City Press-Union is reported to have said: "Tuneful melodies have been provided for "The Queen's Taste" and they are sung in a way to be remembered." That's just it; we remembered every one of them from some show we had seen last year...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/3/1928 | See Source »

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