Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Black Rod! Black Rod!" rang the cry down Westminster's vaulted corridors. The Commons' heavy oak doors clashed shut ahead of the Queen's messenger as they had for 300 years at that cry, in a traditional assertion of independence dating from the time that Charles I invaded the House of Commons with soldiers in an attempt to arrest Hampden, Pym and three other members in 1642. Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, Lieut. General Sir Brian Horrocks-once one of Ike's corps commanders in World War II but now rigged up in kneebreeches-knocked...
Thus last week opened the first new Parliament of Queen Elizabeth II's reign. With the traditional show of reluctance, Speaker-elect W. S. ("Shakes") Morrison was duly "dragged" to his chair by his sponsor and seconder. Next day he was conducted to the House of Peers, reported back that he had, in the Commons' name, "laid claim, by humble petition to Her Majesty, to all your ancient and undoubted rights and privileges, particularly to freedom of speech in debate, freedom from arrest, freedom of access to Her Majesty whenever occasion may require . . ." From...
Scruffy Reality. As the Speaker began to administer to all members the oath of allegiance to the Queen, there was an outburst of cheers from the members' benches and applause from the visitors' gallery as a rosy, stout figure entered the chamber and took his place just below the gangway. Sir Winston Churchill-who once led all the rest-sat watching quietly as his former government colleagues trooped up ahead of him to take the oath. But when it came the turn of Labor's front bench, Clem Attlee made a gracious gesture. He crossed to Churchill...
...this ancient pomp, there was one concession to scruffy present reality. Because of the rail strike, the Queen gave up her traditional golden coach, instead drove to Westminster in a closed car to avoid drawing sightseeing crowds to add to London's traffic snarl. But inside the House of Lords, ancient ceremony took over. Resplendent in white net and diamanté, the imperial crown gleaming on her head and heavy purple robes sweeping back from her shoulders, the young Queen read the Speech from the Throne, written for her by "my government," to an assemblage glittering with peers...
...only one who has ever been received without apology into the world of the seeing." Miss Helen Keller has been blessed and deservedly so with invaluable friends such as H. H. Rogers, Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, Dr. Van Dyko, Mark Twain, Phillips Brooks, William James, and the Dowager, Queen of Rumania. She has met many a magnate in America, including Ford and Edison. She has also been to the White House and met most of the presidents of her life-time: Cleveland, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, and Coolidge. Before I proceed to the questions I asked, I must mention that...