Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...royal entertainment for President and Mme Albert Lebrun in London's India Office fortnight ago, one of the entertainers (the saucy French actor, Sacha Guitry, who has often taken the parts of famous court intriguers) stepped up to Queen Elizabeth and murmured in a low voice, "I have a favor to ask of Your Majesty. I should be very grateful if you would persuade M. Lebrun to run for President again." The Queen said she would do what she could...
...uncensored New York stage public personages of the day, domestic or foreign, are impersonated and lampooned with impunity. Appearing in New York this season are Adolf Hitlers, Benito Mussolinis, Joseph Stalins. In other seasons "appearances" have been made by King George V and Queen Mary, the Duke of Windsor, President & Mrs. Roosevelt, the Roosevelt Cabinet, the Supreme Court...
Other recorded voices of yesterday: Kaiser Franz Josef, Queen Victoria, Woodrow Wilson, Mark Twain, Henry Morton Stanley, President Taft, William Jennings Bryan, Rear-Admiral Peary, Ellen Terry, James Whitcomb Riley, Vice-President (to President McKinley) Garret A. Hobart. Hobbyist Vincent is now searching for a known recording of the voice of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, famed uxoricide...
Last week King Vittorio Emmanuele III inaugurated the new creation in the famed Palazzo Montecitorio, seat of the old Parliament. Accompanied by Crown Prince Umberto, six dukes and one count, and preceded by four masters of ceremonies, with tall Queen Elena and accredited diplomats looking on from balcony boxes, His tiny Majesty ascended three steps to the dais and sat on his throne. The 682 new Councilors then took their oaths collectively, after which His Majesty, producing typewritten sheets of paper from the pocket of his military tunic, read a restrained, conciliatory speech probably written for him by Il Duce...
Manhattan reporters last week journeyed to the docks to count cases of gold being unloaded from the Queen Mary. They counted 355 cases, thus estimated that the Queen brought in some $20,000,000. This was presently dwarfed by a shipment on the Manhattan estimated at $56,000,000, largest ever. At week's end four other liners were on the way from frightened Europe with $75,000,000 more to add to the $15,007,517,132.83 (57% of the world's monetary supply) in gold already admittedly in the U. S. Treasury's hands...