Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...edition was readied for sale, Who's Who's owner and editor Wheeler Sammons, 64, took formal steps to make the book an institution. Sammons, a Pickwickian-looking arbiter of fame who considers listing in his book to be roughly the American equivalent of making the Queen's Honors List, set up a nonprofit foundation with a board of trustees to protect Who's Who's integrity and put its profits into biographical research. Explained Editor Sammons: "I never want Who's Who to fall into irresponsible hands...
...Kings), the stone is still revered as a miracle-working idol. The people of the vicinity make pilgrimages to it to pray for rain, and the carvings show traces of wax from their votive candles. Near it is another carved stone, badly eroded, whose local name is "The Queen...
...other stones, "The Kings" and "The Queen," were even more exciting archeologically. Bernal had never seen anything like them. Only the big square symbol on the two figures was familiar to him. It has been found elsewhere in Mexico, in ruins as old as the 5th century. Bernal believes that further digging on the Hill of the Toad may tell what people lived in the secluded Rio Grande region before the Zapotecs came...
...dingy skylight, and a surging mass of 2,000 Londoners hoisted children to shoulders, waved Bibles, and clambered up on anything handy for a look at a tall, grinning American with wavy blond hair. "My!" exclaimed one dazed young girl. "You'd think it was the Queen...
...rate, this music--Perversion or no--did not seem to bother the Arabian dancer; this Queen of Shiva was more interested in sending shivas up and down the spine with her snake than in the musicians' shivarce. Besides, for all her profound Islamic symbolism, she was content to have a Hindu name...