Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mabel Boll, "Queen of Diamonds," whose trans-Atlantic conversation enlisted the aid of famed Passenger Charles A. Levine; who has been photographed in innumerable poses beside innumerable planes, whose flight to Rome has been a day-by-day concern of the tabloids, sailed quietly on the He de France. Big, buxom, German Thea Rasche, another trans-Atlantic threat, also looked up steamship sailings...
Thus did a seven-year-stickler for tradition speak amuck, at last, shattering a precedent which was established when Speaker Charles Shaw Lefevre was created Viscount Eversley by Queen Victoria in 1857.* Perhaps only once before has John Henry Whitley broken with tradition. In 1921 he was the first Briton ever to take the Speaker's Chair after having been "in trade" (in business). Modest yet inflexible, he last week retired as a commoner entitled to a pension of £4,000 ($19,440) a year, having risen from the nonentity of a poor cotton spinner. His successor is Speaker...
...Chuckled wickedly when a crimson blush of shame suffused the countenance of the young Edward Southwell Russell, Baron de Clifford. His mother-in-law, Mrs. Kate Merrick, "Queen of London Night Club Keepers," has been sentenced to six months in jail for selling liquor after hours. Therefore the young Lord blushed and visibly perspired when the scathing Earl of Birkenhead remarked: "We hear of Peers denouncing drinking in the slums. But they seldom say a word about the evil caused by night clubs ... in connection with which the mother-in-law of two members of Your Lordship's House recently...
...Majesty Queen Salote of Tonga or the Friendly Islands, a British protectorate, was informed, last week, that Falcon Island had again appeared, some 40 miles to the west of her realm, and seemed to be somewhat larger this time than when it last sank...
Meanwhile at Bucharest the Dowager Queen Marie, grandmama of Boy King...