Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FRENCH SUPERLINER will be built to ply North Atlantic runs, compete against British and U.S. vessels. To be named France, $78 million French Line ship will be 55,000 tons (v. 83,673 tons for Cunard's Queen Elizabeth), have luxury accommodations for 2,000 passengers on five-day crossing from Le Havre. First sailing: early...
...blind little princess, Greet Hofmans bowed her head in prayer and assured Juliana that the child could be cured. The cure, she said, would be a slow one. To supervise the process, Greet Hofmans herself came to live at the palace, and in time Baron van Heeckeren became the Queen's private secretary...
...liar ... At the end of the [Chicago] convention he is finished, through, his career terminated and any attempt at blackmail will be strenuously resisted ... He is the patsy and I want him never to forget it. I'm getting mad at him already . . ." Last week Steinbeck picked his "queen's animal." Tom Deutschle, 38, ex-Chicago Sun newshawk and now a Loop pressagent, agreed to take the masochistic assignment...
...Patron. Few campuses anywhere in the world have traveled more resolutely towards their goal over a more precarious road. Ewha was at first such a suspect place that its pupils went about in veils to conceal their identity. But the school did have one powerful patron-patriotic Queen Min, who in 1895 was to meet death in her own palace at the hands of Japanese infiltrators. By 1910, when Japan finally annexed Korea, the idea of education for women was so well established that Ewha began adding college courses...
...grove, having a ghastly time on the stairs. There is fun in Steady, Edna, which rags a British jungle film, while an upper-class British domestic skit has a husband shouting, "To hell with cricket," and his wife replying coldly, "Any one who would say that would strike the Queen...