Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...directed at the Establishment, a currently fashionable name for that power elite of England's Top People who went to school and church together and now read the Times, rather offhandedly run the country, and-most important-mysteriously "keep in touch." Tongue in cheek, London's Queen Magazine last week published its own Establishment Chronicle, on the ground that things had changed since the simple old days of the Old Boy Network, whose members were quiet, not flashy, unruffled, unobtrusively powerful, never admitted mistakes, never resigned...
...sewed) for an infatuated spell called snow time (if her king is too cool, she may have to shovel out the snow). During this romance, only a bad-mannered gnome or mullet would try to hook a snake (ask for a date with the snow king's queen). But should some crude dormitory barbarian crack this campus canon, the dethroned king has been shafted or jabbed, barbed by the purple shaft or the maroon harpoon. In despair he feels clanked or clutched. He has a similar feeling if a girl merely keeps him in the club (dates many boys...
...iron discipline, a break finally came. Shortly after 9 o'clock one evening, an American tourist complained to a policeman that the Guardsman on duty in front of Buckingham Palace had deliberately kicked her in the shins. Within hours-though it happened to be the day-that the Queen returned from Canada-all London was talking about the revolt of the 20-year-old Guardsman of No. 1 Company, Coldstream Guards,* who bore the appropriate name of Victor Footer. He steadfastly denied that he had intentionally kicked the woman, even though she was "sniggering...
...comeliest beauty queens of the Orient, Sirikit Kitiyakara, who is also Queen of Thailand, turned up to open a new hospital in Bangkok, enchanted her subjects with her quiet charm...
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, by Simone de Beauvoir. Intellectual reminiscences of the days when the future queen of existentialism was only a restless student princess...