Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thanksgiving night, four years ago, two Seattle undertakers, John F. Hennessy and Earl J. Cassedy, had a snack of cold turkey sandwiches with a friend on Queen Anne Hill, drove off toward home -and vanished completely. Last month, harbor patrolmen found them in Hennessy's automobile at the bottom of the Lake. Washington Ship Canal. One day last week, Gladys Hennessy, the undertaker's widow, was driving along an icy road with a woman friend and her five-year-old son Patrick (who was wearing a Saint Christopher medal taken from his father's body). The automobile...
Phythian who is studying the American legal system and international law at Harvard is a graduate of Queen's College of Cambridge University. As an officer in the Lancashire Fusiliers he was twice wounded while serving with General Wingate's troops in Burma...
Miss Laughton was selected only after a long search to find some one who could fill the requirements of classical beauty posed by the part, Temple said. When Helen reigned as beauty queen of Troy, fashion had it that women were of generous proportions. Padding was a term used only to describe a cat's means of locomotion...
Radio can even provide a new personality, or renovate an old one. A Twin Falls, Idaho matron who reported that she had "always suffered from inferiority and insecurity" was chosen "Queen for a Day." "Now," she testifies, "I can meet anyone, look them in the eye and feel equal...
...such solemn decisions grinds slow and small. Some 200 years ago, a monk wrote to Pope Clement XIII begging him to define the bodily Assumption of Mary as "a most certain dogma of faith." Clement passed the matter on to the Holy Office. In 1863, Spain's Queen Elizabeth made the same request. Pius IX, though recognizing the Queen's good intentions, was somewhat annoyed at a temporal sovereign's interference in sacred matters. He replied: "I am not worthy to publish such a dogma. The wishes of Your Majesty, the holy wishes of Your Majesty, will...