Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cheryl Smith, 9, was crushed. For weeks she had lived in anticipation of the day when the King and Queen of Greece would visit her father's farm, 40 miles from Chicago, as part of their good-will tour of the U.S. (TIME, Nov. 9). Then last week, pretty Queen Frederika caught a cold and had to skip the trip to the farm. "I told all my friends I was going to see a queen," sobbed Cheryl. "I've never seen a real, live queen!" But King Paul kept his date, and, as his 18-car motorcade stopped...
...farmhouse, where they were introduced to Farmer J. George Smith, 36, and his family. Then everybody sat down to a solid country dinner-fried chicken, acorn squash, mashed potatoes, string beans with bacon drippings, cider and green apple pie. King Paul explained that he preferred white meat, but the Queen, he said, liked dark meat, and "between us, we lick the platter clean." Then, to the astonishment of the Smiths, he recited the Jack Sprat nursery rhyme and promptly cleaned his own platter...
...University, dined with U.N. officials twice and attended two receptions. Ahead of them loomed a formidable five-week schedule that will take them to the far corners of the nation in the longest, most thorough U.S. tour ever made by reigning monarchs. Behind them, King Paul and his buoyant Queen left some thoroughly tired Americans. "I could sleep for a week," sighed Mrs. Victoria Gainey, the housekeeper at Blair House. "But you must say so," replied Queen Frederika's personal maid: "She looked like an angel...
...British Empire's ties that bind loosened a little more last week. Ceylon, smallest of the dominions, decided not to fly the British Union Jack or to play God Save the Queen at official functions. Ceylonese have a flag of their own and their own Anthem, Namo Namo Matha (Hail, Hail, Mother...
Proofs of ant citizenship can be falsified rather easily, and many intruders take advantage of this fact. A newly fertilized Jet Black Ant queen sometimes hangs around the door of a foreign colony until she takes on some of its characteristic odor. After a time she marches in boldly. The defenders, thinking she is one of them, do not stop her. When she finds the resident queen, she climbs on top of the incumbent and bites off her head. Then she starts laying eggs. Her young can eventually become so numerous that they dominate the colony...