Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joseph Stalin had much to celebrate; he also had much to remember. When he was born, the son of a drunken Georgian shoemaker and his peasant wife, Queen Victoria was on the throne, Karl Marx was a penniless scribbler, and the world seemed to find it a good deal easier to tell the difference between right & wrong than it does today. Stalin built an empire of a kind that Victoria could not have visualized even in her nightmares; he forged Marx's foggy philosophy into an iron knife with which to carve the earth; and he swamped mankind with...
...masked dancers, twice the number that attended two previous open-faced fund-raising parties. Among the celebrities and socialites who showed up (at $25 a ticket): the white-tied Marquess of Milford Haven and his American fiancee, Mrs. Romaine Simpson; black-tied ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia and Queen Alexandra; Warren Austin, permanent U.S. delegate to the U.N., and Mrs. Austin, wearing a notably fancy mask which partygoers took to be a huge butterfly whipped up by a famous designer. She finally disclosed that she had made it herself out of some old tulle and brilliants she "found around...
...Queen Eleanor, whose domestic difficulties resulted in the convent's foundation, still lay in her royal robes, her hand still covered by a white calfskin glove embroidered in green silk. From other tombs came exquisite brocade bonnets. The colors of the silks were as bright as though dyed yesterday. There was even a bunch of tiny withered roses, a token of personal tenderness 700 years...
Nicholas Benton '51 plays the ex-burlesque queen with the heart of gold, and Wayne A. Clark '52 plays her son, Alabams, who wants to be a playwright...
There were other good wishes for the greatest Briton of his time. Telegrams, letters and parcels poured in on him all day. Denmark's King Frederik and Queen Ingrid toasted him at a lunch in the Danish embassy, while in the streets outside a huge crowd greeted him with shouts of "Good old Winnie!" "His life," said London's Evening Standard, "is the most important individual strand in the weave of the 20th Century...