Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...staff of 15 secretaries and personal servants. Necessarily eight suites and cabins aboard the lie de France had been occupied at a cost of $20,000. From the pier Captain Loewenstein & Party motored to the Hotel Ambassador, where they settled down in the comfortable third floor once occupied by Queen Marie of Rumania (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926, et seq.). Soon fastidious Captain Loewenstein read with pain certain ignorant, flapdoodling headlines. The Times: "LOEWENSTEIN . . . 'MYSTERY MAN'. . . POTENTATE . . . Here With Private Aviator [and] Two Cars." The Herald Tribune: "WORLD'S THIRD WEALTHIEST MAN HERE LIKE KING." The World: "LOEWENSTEIN...
...received a letter from Charles W. Tillett, a political commentator of Charlotte, who wrote: "I have said many good things concerning you and I wish to determine, after seeing you, whether I can, like the Queen of Sheba, say the half has not been told, or whether I must repeat what Uncle Eph said to me the other day when I got after him about an extravagant statement he had made: 'Boss, I jest over-spoke myself.' " Candidate Smith wired back: "Will be delighted to see you . . . in the matter of Queen of Sheba versus Uncle...
First is Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 54, Earl of Athlone, a brother of Queen-Empress Mary, and since 1923 His Majesty's Governor General of the Union of South Africa. All his life he has been a soldier-a smart Hussar, an impeccable Life Guard, and finally, during the South
Gossips remember that the Earl of Athlone subsisted for years as a "poor relation" of British Royalty. Edward VII disliked him and was niggardly about allowing him to live rent-free in a mean suite of rooms at Windsor Castle. Not until his sister became Queen-Empress did his future really brighten. At present his duty is merely to preside impartially, in the Union of South Africa, over the incessant squabbles of the factions headed by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog and famed General Jan Christiaan Smuts...
...March, the baby was born and with it, thought sophisticated newsreaders, a precedent. They foresaw future front pages headlined with "scoops" in a day when scoops are rare. . . . ASTERBILTS ABOUT TO HAVE A CHILD. . . . MOVIE QUEEN WILL BEAR TWINS, DOCTOR PREDICTS. . . . MAGNATE'S OFFSPRING THREE WEEKS OVERDUE...