Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every night for the past six weeks in the London hit A Queen Came By, Actress Thora Hird had spoken these lines in fear and trembling, while a sympathetic stage manageress stood in the wings with a glass of brandy at the ready. Whenever she spoke them, said Actress Hird, the second-hand Victorian jacket she wore in the third act tightened inexplicably about her neck and invisible hands seemed to choke...
...cast of A Queen Came By went back to their humdrum jobs-and a quick look at the racing form. A horse named Jacket was running in the fourth at Newmarket. The entire cast put their money on his nose. Jacket romped home, paying four...
...Quonset Point Air Station near Providence had been acting a little skittish lately. The reason was the big, annual all-station ball for the base's 3,900 sailors and civilian personnel. This year, the big feature was the election of "Miss Quonset Point." The triumphant queen was to be crowned at the ball; the commandant would escort her in the grand march. Everyone who bought a ticket got a vote, and sales were brisk...
...ball were to establish a civilian-worker welfare fund. They took her shopping, bought her a complete new outfit and a few hours in a beauty parlor. They arranged to pick her up in a 1949 Lincoln. Mrs. Clauson relented. All over the base, signs went up: "Our Queen Eva will be there tonight-how about...
Onetime Shimmy Queen Gilda Gray, 47, sought $1,000,000 from Columbia Pictures for alleged damages caused by a movie named Gilda, starring "an actress named Rita Hayworth." Charged Gilda: the picture invades not only the privacy of her life, but even that of her shimmy, which the brief defined as "a rhythmical shivering and shaking of parts of the body, synchronized and performed to a personalized syncopated musical rhythm...