Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grope your way in the half-dark to an empty seat at a beer-laden table. Your eyes are immediately attracted to the stage, and through the smoke of cigarettes and cigars you can see Lola, the Queen of the Blue Angel. With black-stockinged legs spread wide and arms carelessly akimbo she stands at the center of all gazes. In a low and vibrant voice she sings her way into the heart--and libido--of even so staid a person as Professor Immanuel Rath...
Since the law was laid down in the regime of Queen Juana the Crazy* back in 1505, Spanish women have made few advances in their rights and privileges. Only married or widowed Spanish women may vote. Without her husband's written consent, a senora may not inherit property, may not manage money or businesses, may not witness a will, or may not take a job. She may get a legal separation from her husband only if she leaves her home (it belongs to the man, even if purchased with the wife's-dowry), and surrenders all children older...
...blood line of succession), should rule as regent of Castile if Juana was incapable of ruling. When Isabella died in 1504, Juana got the crown, but Ferdinand-and for a brief time Philip-got the power. Driven deeper into insanity by the death of her husband, Queen Juana la Loca died in 1555 without ever having really ruled...
Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika, nearing the end of their month-long marathon around the U.S., popped up unannounced in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, where they beamed from a box while Greek-born Dimitri Mitropoulos conducted the New York Philharmonic. After the concert, the King awarded Maestro Mitropoulos the decoration of Commander of the Royal Order of the Phoenix. As photographers' flashbulbs went off, the Queen, by now used to the chin-up-and-smile orders barked at her, complied expertly, quipped to the picture-takers: "You'd think we'd been trained...
Died. Savely Sorine, 74, Russian-born portrait artist, best known for his delicate paintings of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. Russia's late great ballerina, Pavlova, Actress Lillian Gish; in Manhattan...