Word: queenly
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...Prince Ernest's ancestry entitles him to an even more useful privilege: that of British nationality. By implication, the court's decision, based on a law passed in 1705, would grant the same privilege, on application, to the present Kings of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Greece, the Queen of The Netherlands, the descendants of the late Kaiser Wilhelm II and to some 400 other non-Roman-Catholic heirs, including the wives of an interior decorator in Amarillo, Texas and a lawyer in Springfield...
...trim queen of modern U.S. racing yachts, Bolero, a 73½ft. yawl seldom out of first place in her class, was sold by the New York Yacht Club's former commodore, salty Multimillionaire John Nicholas Brown (once renowned as "the world's richest baby"), to boat-loving Swedish Shipping Magnate Sven Salen, whose line of six-meter yachts (all christened Maybe) is a perennial threat in Eastern U.S. sailing contests. Price paid for Bolero, Class A winner of the 1950 and 1954 Newport-to-Bermuda races, was undisclosed. Her original cost...
...curious that Prince Philip, who just a short time ago was a penniless young man himself, aspiring to marriage with the most eligible young future Queen of Great Britain, should have been such a fire-and-tongs enemy of Townsend, and of Margaret's marriage. It would be interesting to know to just what extent this man is domineering the throne of Britain and the three women that make up the royal family. I am the mother of two, and believe there were strong arguments on both sides of the Margaret-Townsend question, but I'd hate...
...Manhattan, checked in at the Plaza Hotel and on a shopping expedition, when the news of Khrushchev's decree came through. "I do not believe what has been printed in the American press," said Delegation Leader Koziulia. "It's not true." Next day, boarding the Queen Elizabeth on his way home, Vlasov, smiling nervously, cracked: "As you see, I'm alive, and I'm in good humor." Added Russia's chief specialist in Stalinist baroque as he sailed off into the unknown: "It will all be straightened out in Moscow...
...Queen of the Sciences. Once again religion has become intellectually respectable. "In my day." says David Webster, acting dean of men at Temple University, "we were apt to say that religion is a superstition." Today, says Chaplain Richard Unsworth of Smith College, "theology is no longer classed with domestic science as a subject not suited for a liberal arts college." Adds Bowdoin's William Geoghegan: "One average student was recently asked if he thought theology was the 'Queen of the Sciences.' He replied: 'I don't know, but I can see how it could...