Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faced with a growing population of unmarried women, the village fathers of 17 villages in south-central Greece have written an open letter to Queen Frederika asking her to help abolish the dowry system altogether. "This system," wrote the rural elders, "has become a nightmare to families with daughters." Local swains were asking as much as $1,300 in British gold sovereigns* in addition to housefuls of fathers' furniture as the price of their devotion. "These fathers are now deeply in debt," said one patriarch...
...take care of the Appian Way, the great road that stretched from Rome to Brindisi on Italy's southern coast. Laid out in 312 B.C. and already famed in Caesar's day, the Via Appia became known, in the centuries that followed, as the Queen of Roads. Many a victorious Roman legion marched homeward in triumph along its stone paving and over its skillfully engineered bridges. Wealthy Romans built their most sumptuous villas and tombs along its right of way. Along the same road the Apostle Paul trudged to his martyrdom...
...Sweden's plan will pay only 75% and calls for direct contributions by individuals (a man earning $2,000 will pay $36 to insure his family). Costly drugs will be free and many prescriptions will go at half price, but there will be no free wigs or spectacles. Queen Louise signed up as Subject No. 231103-her husband, King Gustaf, is the only one of 7,150,000 Swedes not entitled to the plan's benefits...
Some think of others. Said Queen Marie Antoinette, after she stepped by accident on her executioner's foot: "Monsieur, I beg your pardon." "Let not poor Nelly starve," said Charles II of his mistress, Nell Gwyn. And George M. Cohan's last words were of his wife: "Look after Agnes." But few have left behind them last words as filled with dignity and grace as those of an Indian chief named Crowfoot, leader of the Blackfoot Confederacy: "A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we come, into nowhere...
...great one. Three English universities have dubbed her Doctor, her sovereign has made her a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, her poetry readings in the U.S. are well attended, and Hollywood has hired her to write the film script for her own book on Queen Elizabeth I. Now published for the first time in the U.S. are her Collected Poems (Vanguard; $6.50). They make an impressive and haunting volume. To Dame Edith, her success is gratifying, especially when she recalls her father's pleasantry on reading her first poems: "Edith will commit suicide when...