Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart. "I wasn't going to eat," she said, "but I got hungry." After dinner King Paul made a quick tour of the farm with Smith. Then, with a home-cured ham tucked under his arm, the King waved goodbye and drove back to Chicago to tell the Queen all about...
...soon as Queen Frederika heard about Cheryl's disappointment, she invited the Smiths (minus Baby Lois) to breakfast at her Chicago hotel suite. Nannette and Cheryl brought along a batch of fudge they had made, and helped the Queen eat it. After they had finally seen the Queen, the Smith kids were all smiles. Their unanimous verdict: "She's a real nice lady...
...last week were harnessed once again to the Irish state coach to carry their mistress to Westminster for the opening of Parliament. In an age of internal combustion engines, the greys were as much of an anachronism as the three gleaming detachments of the Household Cavalry which escorted the Queen's coach, but all played their parts in the elaborate ceremonial of royal rule with the dignity and solemnity that Britons expect of the occasion...
...Winston himself was not around to hear the Queen speak his words. He was home in bed working on a speech of his own, a far more orotund affair (see INTERNATIONAL) than the brief, ten-minute address he had given his sovereign. Both speeches reflected the same Churchillian hope: to keep the Tory government in command for its full term. "We were elected [in 1951] for a five-year period under what is called the Quinquennial Act," Churchill told the House of Commons that afternoon, rolling his tongue happily over the long, Latinate word. As outlined by the Queen...
...surprise provision in the Queen's speech urged further reform (i.e., restriction) of the House of Lords, a project which has preoccupied Churchill ever since 1910, when as a member of the Liberal government he spent his workdays castigating dukes and his weekends enjoying the hospitality of his cousin, the Duke of Marlborough...