Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Majesty Queen Juliana regretted that she would be unable to attend the gala concert of the visiting Philadelphia Orchestra as planned. Late into the evening, Her Majesty would be compelled to spend her time sorting out that most un-Dutch of royal embarrassments: a Cabinet crisis. "A rather unusual phenomenon in the Netherlands," the Nieuwe Rotterdamse Courant termed it. "But there are moments in life," the Het Parool of Amsterdam told its readers, "when one has to make a decision...
Cheesecake. In Detroit, meeting to select the Posture Queen of 1955. Michigan chiropractors dutifully pored over dozens of candidates' X rays to find the girl with the best intervertebral fibro-cartilages...
...reserved from 60 to 90 days ahead. Ocean liners are even more popular. The U.S. Lines' 1,700-passenger United States and 950-passenger America are booked solid for all tourist and cabin classes until August. For the critical eastbound season (June 1-July 15), Cunard's Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth have not a single cabin available...
Women Golfers. For women golfers U.S. Rubber Co. has brought out a special golf ball dubbed the "U.S. Queen Royal," in which the rubber strips are wound less tightly. The increased "give," says the manufacturer, gets women golfers more distance to the drive than with other balls. Price: $1.10 each...
...pair of pink panties in the other.' " The heraldic section of the Quartermaster General's office submitted designs for insignia. A first attempt "produced only a busy-bee-like insect, which Mrs. Hobby pronounced a bug, adding that she had no desire to be called the queen bee. Designers then hit upon the idea of a head of Pallas Athene, a goddess associated with an impressive variety of womanly virtues and no vices either womanly or godlike...