Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until late into the afternoon, avoiding mention of Don Juan's own claims to the throne (Franco has never forgiven him for certain anti-Franco remarks made in 1945), they discussed the education of Don Juan's son, Juan Carlos, great-great-grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria. The 17-year-old Juanito has just completed his secondary education at Madrid's aristocratic St. Isideo high school and is at present staying with his exiled parents in Estoril, Portugal. The question, already taken up in an exchange of letters through ducal couriers, was how the slim...
...annual Honors List of Britain's Queen Elizabeth was published with a rare omission: no famous author or actor appeared in the roster of nearly 2,000 British subjects who made the grade. The Aga Khan, 77, who as holder of four British knighthoods can already call himself Sir Mahomed Shah, got a fancy new title, mostly for his aid to Moslems in Britain's East African colonies: Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. Britain's urbane ambassador to the U.S., Sir Roger Makins, 50, joined the Aga Khan in the same order. Australia...
...three-quarters of a century, the sun never set on Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. For archivists and amateurs, professors and performers around the world, England's queen-size compendium* was the first authority on the ways and means of music. But the fourth edition of Grove's (published in 1940) was much the same as the first (1878), and after World War II, London's Macmillan & Co. decided it was high time for a completely revised edition. After nearly ten years of labor-by about 500 contributors under the stern supervision of London...
...minimum of intellectual effort from his audiences and failed to write a successful opera because he was unwilling to "speak of his own emotional life: to exhibit naked feeling appeared as a breach of etiquette." Mild-mannered Cyclopedist Blom, 66, also sharpened up his donnish ax on the Queen's English and "made war" on certain usages that irked him. Among the casualties: GLISSANDO, which Blom calls a "mock-turtle with a French head and an Italian tail . . . unfortunately used by composers anywhere but in Italy," and TONE (used for "note" in twelve-tone music), which "has been accepted...
Died. Sir Robert Beaufin Irving, 77, trained-in-sail ex-commodore of the Cunard White Star line, captain of the Queen Mary in 1938 when she broke the eastbound and westbound transatlantic speed records established by the French liner Normandie a year earlier; in Carlisle, England...