Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Corn & the Queen...
...review of Miss Bette Davis' Virgin Queen: that your reviewers fail to recognize a great performance is understandable, but that they make loud and noisome puns is as unforgivable as the popcorn bags I am sure they rattle. It is some relief that not all critics have found the Virgin Queen "strictly corn of the realm...
...USUALLY KIND TO ACTRESS BETTE DAVIS IN THE PICTORIAL DEPARTMENT, THEREFORE IT CAME AS A SHOCK WHEN YOU DID NOT PUBLISH A PORTRAIT OF HER ELIZABETH. OBVIOUSLY, YOU DID NOT WISH ANYONE TO SEE THE VIRGIN QUEEN BALD. I SHOULD THINK YOU WOULD HAVE SAVED US THE TRIAL OF GOING TO THE MOVIE JUST FOR CURIOSITY...
...Greece," gushed Elsa Maxwell, "is a poor country but a proud one. When the Queen said that Greece needed tourist business, it suddenly occurred to me that someone should organize a cruise." Suiting the action to the thought, yeasty, 72-year-old Elsa went to work, talked Greek Shipping Magnate Stavros Niarchos into the loan of the new liner Achilleus, and assembled a likely guest list. The Queen of the Hellenes, who herself went cruising last year on the Achilleus' sister ship Agamemnon (TIME. Sept. 13, 1954), was not invited. "I decided not to have any Greeks," said Elsa...
...started to remove the rest of the plaster. Sluices of benzine, alcohol, vinegar and lemon juice failed to part plaster from wood, but 24 gallons of acetone finally did the trick. What emerged was an elaborately carved case, featuring a frieze of plump, drunken cherubs hauling their equally drunken queen across the piano face with most unmusical leers. Carmi dug out an old picture of the king's piano. It was the same...