Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fruit canning factory in the world- the James D. Dole's Hawaiian Pineapple Co. Mr. Dole is perhaps the richest resident of Hawaii and its most ardent publicist. Another famed Dole, the late Sanford Ballard (TIME, June 21, 1926), was responsible for stirring up the revolution which ousted Queen Liliuokalani, was the first and only President of Hawaii (1894-1900), was a leader in getting the U. S. to annex the islands...
Therefore the Royal & Imperial bread was publicly spread extra thick, last week, with the best butter: "... very enjoyable stay . . . the Queen and I have appreciated the loyal and enthusiastic reception . . . the true English welcome which we will never forget . . . accorded us by the people of Nottinghamshire...
...contrary, the State Visit was taken with utmost seriousness at Buckingham Palace. A banquet of thoroughgoing sumptuousness was got ready. His Majesty George V welcomed and even embraced the Dauphin of France, latest of the Bourbons. Her Majesty Queen-Empress Mary was ashimmer with diadems usually reserved for great occasions...
...goddesses, goes to the heads of worldlings. It gives them an inexplicable grandeur, a constant vibration between excitement and ease, a strange language. Take, for example, the events at Santander, Spain, on the Bay of Biscay during the last three weeks. King Alfonso XIII went there to join his queen and children. Yachts and warships speckled the harbor. There were receptions in the Magdalena Palace, dances in the clubs, frolicking townsfolk and tourists everywhere. U. S. Ambassador Ogden H. Hammond came down from Madrid. There was a short yacht race; the Queen trounced the King, and the infantes Gonzalo...
...opportunity to climb aboard the Nina and say: "I am the King of Spain," to which young Elihu Root Jr. of Manhattan replied: "We had recognized Your Majesty." Nina, tiniest of all the yachts and first to finish in the race from New York to Santander, won the Queen's cup for boats of less than 55 feet waterline length. She had crossed the Atlantic in 24 days. Said her skipper. Paul Hammond: "We carried all the sail we could, but we did not drive the yacht and we shortened sail whenever the weather was heavy...