Word: queenly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ireland . . . won freedom for three-quarters of their country. In Ireland's northeastern corner, which Britain yet holds, there is a small band of gallant Irish boys who still struggle for freedom. One of these, William Kelly, who contumeliously declared he would never swear allegiance "to a foreign Queen," was, therefor, as reported in your Dec. 14 story, convicted of "sedition" and given choice of binding himself "to be of good behavior" (be a nice, polite Briton) or go, a felon in felon's garb, to a convict prison. From the dock defiant, and vowing he would never...
...produced; Welshman Dylan Thomas, the best young poet in the English language; Sergei Prokofiev, Russia's great composer; General Jonathan Wainwright, hero of Bataan; Mayor Ernst Reuter, hero of the cold-war battle of Berlin; Saudi Arabia's fabulous King Ibn Saud; Britain's redoubtable Queen Mary...
...British Commonwealth crowned its Queen in elegance that momentarily revived a great past and lifted spirits. But the vast realm over which she reigns trembled again with the ague of disintegration-the Sudan broke away, all colonial Africa throbbed with the presence or possibility of violence and shouts for independence. The Queen was Britain's Woman of the Year; Britain's Man was clearly its great, aging, political chieftain, newly knighted Sir Winston Churchill...
...banquet-4,200 suckling pigs and 2,100 chickens-the Tongan Prime Minister, Queen Salote's elder son, college-bred Crown Prince Tongi, made a glowing speech of welcome. Then, in high good humor, Elizabeth of Britain and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh settled back to eat the rich fare with their fingers, while wildly gyrating laka laka dancers whirled to the music of nose flutes...
Next morning, after a dawn serenade, the visiting couple attended church, then boarded the liner Gothic. As Queen Salote and her family circled the huge vessel in a government launch, the Gothic steamed off toward New Zealand. When the big white ship was hull down on the horizon, a radio message winged its way back: "We take away happiest memories of Tonga and the great and friendly welcome given us by your people. May Almighty God watch over them...