Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visited his studio he had an open can of some foodstuff . . . the blue and white label read "Fix FOR HUMAN USE." It was issued by the WPA. The dark walls of Decker's depressing menage were covered with "brown-sauce" paintings-one of which was Queen Victoria with a W. C. Fields head [see cut]. Another, after Da Vinci, had Fanny Brice's face...
Accompanied by Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, Britain's bonnie Prince Charles, 5, and Princess Anne, 3, rode to Portsmouth from London on an electric train. Confused because he is more expert on steam locomotives, Charles asked: "Is there a man in front?" At Portsmouth, the royal party boarded the new 413-ft. royal yacht Britannia (cost: $6,000,000). After tea, the Queen Mother and Margaret went ashore, and the Britannia set course for the Mediterranean, with the children beaming at the rail while bagpipes skirled on the pier. On May 1 the Britannia...
There was little need for the six-man detachment of special police sent over from Singapore, or for the Queen's own bodyguards, as Elizabeth strolled among her subjects in Cocos. There, everybody knows everybody else, and all security arrangements necessary were adequately handled by two Malay dancers who gyrated gracefully before the royal party, sweeping the evil spirits from the path. Even this precaution was excessive, for under the benevolent tyranny of five generations of Scottish copra growers named Clunies-Ross, who own the Cocos and rule there under the eye of the British government as virtual kings...
When her brief inspection tour was over (distance traveled: 500 yards), Britain's Queen settled down to enjoy a garden party at Oceana House, the royal palace of the present "King" of Cocos, John Clunies-Ross, 25, and his beautiful "Queen" Daphne, whom he wooed and won in London in 1951. Garbed in a Molyneux gown and feathered hat flown from England for the occasion, Daphne Clunies-Ross, who in the last three years has grown used to island barefoot fashions, was plainly uncomfortable in her high-heeled shoes...
...says "Harry S. Truman Airport" was tactfully shrouded by a big welcome banner. Next day Alexander, a Negro contractor from Des Moines, climbed up on the back seat of a crimson Chevrolet convertible and headed a brass-band parade up the Kronprindsensgade (Crown Prince Street) and down the Dronningensgade (Queen Street). At the Emancipation Garden where the Danes* freed their slaves in 1848, he was sworn in as the first Republican governor of the Virgin Islands (pop. 26,665, of whom 91% are of Negro or mixed blood...