Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other laughing matters-PARIS BOUND, THE QUEEN'S HUSBAND, THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY...
...Like Queen Mary of England (see p. 15), Mrs. Coolidge last week fell ill. A heavy cold sent her to bed with pain in her side and a trained nurse standing by. After four days, White House Physician James Francis Coupal reported her convalescent. The attack caused her to miss a state function for the first time in her two terms as White House hostess. President Coolidge alone conducted a formal dinner to Speaker Longworth of the House...
Momentously the Queen-Empress was indisposed. She was stricken last week, as was Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, with a stay-a-bed cold. Therefore two records were set: 1) Mrs. Coolidge, for the first time in her husband's administration, absented herself from a White House social function; and 2) Queen-Empress Mary, for the first time in her consort's reign, did not accompany His Majesty when he rode forth to open Parliament...
Other laughing matters: THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY, THE QUEEN'S HUSBAND, PARIS BOUND, THE BABY CYCLONE...
...HAUNTED HOUSE?Hilaire Belloc, illustrations by G. K. Chesterton ?Harpers ($2.50). Rackham, also known as Rackham Catchings, was a nice house for a murder. Part of it was built in the time of Queen Elizabeth. Various stucco wings added to its ugliness through the ages. Among other things, it contained "many a bad watercolour by ladies of the place, living and dead; a few portraits in the drawing-room, one of which, almost black, was reputed to be a Gainsborough." Rackham had come into the possession of Mrs. Hilda Maple, a widow with a business head. She filled...