Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubt that the armor had been missed; up to 2,800 visitors a day thronged the main, banner-decked central court, to see the pick of an array that ranges from the earliest complete set of Gothic armor to the opulent Elizabethan harness once worn by the Queen's Champion, George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland...
...Limb. In Chicago, after making personal appearances among 1,150 exhibits stretched over five miles of the Navy Pier, Ruth Elaine Conte abdicated as queen of the National Restaurant Association's convention, handed her crown over to N.R.A. President Marion Isbell, bawled, "That's enough; my feet hurt...
Heroic Sailor Horatio Hornblower is a durable fiction stalwart who has seized his own creator, Britain's Novelist C. S. (The African Queen) Forester, and, ever bolstered by readers clamoring for more, will not let him go. In Britain's weekly Spectator, Author Forester last week disclosed the agony to which his hero has long subjected him. Excerpt from Ballade to an Old Friend: I set Your Lordship in the House of Peers- / But you have brought me many a quid pro quo / Because we've been together twenty years . . . / Yet horrid Horry mawkish matelot, / Obnoxious more...
Between chukkers of a polo game played at Windsor Great Park, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II had a word with her hard-riding husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, while Prince Charles and Princess Anne stood by. Later touring Devonshire, the Queen and her consort had a close scrape when a roadside throng, pressing forward to see the royal pair, toppled a badly anchored 20-ft. flagpole across the highway only a moment after the Queen's open car had passed the spot...
When the official ceremony was done, the King, the Queen, the leading officials and the distinguished guests were hoisted onto the backs of newly painted elephants for a grand parade through the city. Britain's aristocratic Earl of Scarbrough and one of Red China's Vice Premiers, Ulanfu, who shared a howdah, smiled wanly at the cheering crowds as their huge beast heaved and rolled along the line of march. Behind them an elephantload of Indian maharajas grinned as happily as college boys joy riding...