Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...session. The agenda was not the H-bomb and the state of the world, but the most tantalizing question in British politics: When will Churchill retire? With Sir Winston in the chair, a tentative decision was reached: he is to resign in the first week of April, and the Queen will ask Sir Anthony Eden to take over as Prime Minister...
...REPORTING AMBASSADOR ALDRICH's LONDON HOUSEWARMING PARTY, AT WHICH THE QUEEN WAS PRESENT, TIME, MARCH 7 ERRED IN SAYING THAT "LONDON'S PRESS NEXT DAY UPBRAIDED ALDRICH FOR HIS NEWS BLACKOUT AND THE BALLROOM MANNERS OF THE CRUDE AMERICANS . . ." NO PAPER CRITICIZED ALDRICH AND ONLY THE "EVENING STANDARD" COMMENTED ON THE MANNERS OF SOME AMERICANS PRESENT AT THIS SENSATIONALLY SUCCESSFUL SOCIAL FUNCTION...
...Exile. Last week there was a clear sign that the Queen, Primate and Premier had bowed to the inevitable and admitted defeat. For 19 months, 40-year-old Captain Townsend, fighter-pilot hero of the Battle of Britain, had been quietly doing his duties as air attache in Brussels, refusing social engagements in favor of racing horses as a gentleman jockey, and scrupulously denying himself to newsmen. But now, with the air of a man suddenly released from an invisible leash, Airman Townsend began giving interviews, dropping pointed hints and adopting the manner of a man who could say much...
Undoubted Queen. Penicillin was not technically the first of the antibiotics, but it was the first to make medical sense, let alone history. While Alexander Fleming went on puttering in his littered laboratory, interrupted often to accept awards and honors (most notable: a knighthood from George VI and, with Florey and Chain, a Nobel Prize), other antibiotics poured from researchers' vials. Some, like streptomycin for tuberculosis, proved to have sharply defined powers that penicillin lacked; others complement it with a spectrum of antibacterial activity...
...Grable is a musicomedy star whose songwriter husband (Jack Lemmon) is reported dead in Korea. After a suitable period of mourning, she marries her husband's partner (Gower Champion). So, of course, Lemmon turns up alive, and the fun begins. Gower glowers, Lemmon sours, and Grable plays the queen in a giddy double checkmate. The best scenes in the picture are those in which the two men dance attendance on their mutual wife to some pretty, witty choreography by Jack Cole. All the dances, in fact, have just the right sort of scratchpad casualness, and in a couple...