Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Medieval "trial by ordeal" was administered to persons of every class, from queens to scullery maids. Thus Queen Emma, mother of Edward the Confessor, walked barefooted and unharmed over nine red hot ploughshares to prove that she had not committed adultery with the holy Alwyn, Bishop of Winchester. Women suspected of being witches were stripped naked and "cross bound" (the right thumb being tied to the left toe, and the left thumb to the right toe), whereupon they were thrown into water, and sank if innocent. British humanitarian, Archbishop Hincmar, dates from the ninth century the notable reform...
...notable ships of its history. Membership requires presentation of a model to this museum. There hangs, also, the stern board of the great yacht America, built by a syndicate headed by James C. Stevens, which sailed to England and raced against 15 British boats around the Isle of Wight. Queen Victoria, scanning the finish, saw the America cross the line. "Who is second," she asked. "There is no second," was the answer. The U. S. invader won by hours...
...famed 6 metre sailboats (about 35 feet on deck) for which British boats visit various foreign clubs including U. S. and U. S. boats are carried across the seas to race in foreign waters. This summer there will be a trans-pacific race to Honolulu. The King and Queen of Spain have offered cups for a trans-atlantic sailing yacht race from New York to Santander, Spain. Two classes will race: boats 35 to 55 ft. on the waterline and boats over 55 ft. Many of the notable craft from Eastern harbors are entered including the Aloha, Atlantic...
...vast research, in his shallow, swift running style. He regards her misdemeanors with a sympa- thetic eye, is careful to point out that her liaisons often cooled to life-long friendships. Well he describes her receiving, in the convent to which she had been temporarily remanded by the Queen of France, a visit from the extraordinary Queen Christina of Sweden. The crowd of shadowy gallants that at all times surrounded her are dexterously manipulated. Ninon's long friendship with M. de Saint-Evremond is made real and splendid, as is that curious moment when the old lady stretched a wrinkled...
...Queen's Husband. As diarist of an unidentified king, discovered last week acting oddly upon the stage of a Manhattan theatre, Robert Emmet Sherwood develops ramifications. He sets up a satire on royalty, gilds it with hot romance and stripes the second act with melodrama. One hears an undertone of Bolshevism and unmistakable echoes of the derision that dogged Queen Marie across our country. Mr. Sherwood dares destroy any trace of consistency by marrying off his Princess to her plumber's son at the end with as glossy a happy ending as ever was pasted on the movies which...