Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...covering the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Queen Salote of Tonga (TIME, Dec. 28), Richard MacMillan recorded his choice menu: 4,200 roasted suckling pigs, 2,100 chickens, baked taro and yams, fresh pineapple, watermelon and bananas, shellfish and coconut milk...
Amidst a flurry of rumors that she is expecting, Queen Elizabeth II ventured forth to a posh wedding reception (for one of her coronation maids of honor) in London. She was pictured in a chic, form-fitting dress, which stopped some gossips but moved others to talk of the wonders of modern corseting. Just to spite the prattlers, London's Daily Herald ran the photograph with a smug caption: "The Queen with a nipped-in waist...
...even fancier social calendar. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie, first crowned head ever voluntarily to visit a Communist country, dropped in and celebrated his 62nd birthday in Belgrade. Later this summer, to repay Tito's visit of last June, Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika will try out Tito's growing talents as a host...
...column, a deft and devastating panning of the sacrosanct Philharmonic-Symphony ("the sombre and spiritless sonority of a German military band"). Thereafter, he shaded old-style critics by his saucy phrases, e.g., hearing Violinist Jascha Heifetz overpower a sonatina "made one feel . . . that one had somehow got on the Queen Mary to go to Brooklyn." His compliments were apt to be delivered off his backhand: one composer, he said, "wrote Mexican music ... in the best Parisian syntax. No Indians around and no illiteracy...
...base ties down, in expensive, debilitating idleness, 80,000 of Britain's best troops, some of whom might be used better in Malaya and elsewhere. The 5,000-sq. mi. area, crammed with men and materiel, is a sitting duck for a thermonuclear attack; the Queen's Middle East forces would be deployed in Libya, Cyprus and Jordan...