Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading Driberg's article, one should feel a very strong desire to exclaim at the top of his voice "God save the Queen . . . and Britain...
...ensure fair play, Desmond and Joe tossed a coin for the nomination. Joe called "heads" and won the seat. But the question East Tyrone voters are now debating is: Did Joe win fair & square? For the coin they tossed was not of the British variety bearing the Queen's head, but a coin of the Irish Republic, with a harp on one side and a horse on the other. Joe Stewart, say the Mallon partisans, should have called "horses," not "heads...
Originally entitled Red Dust and set in the Orient, Mogambo has now been converted into the latest in a series of technicolor African epics which includes King Solomon's Mines, The African Queen, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Following the example of its predecessors, the film devotes considerable footage to sweeping shots of the varied flora and fauna of Kenya and Tanganyika. Unfortunately, even a panoramic screen and stereophonic sound cannot destroy the feeling of having seen all this before. Leaping gazelles, prowling lions, and flamingos rising against an orange African sunset are getting just a little commonplace...
...Manhattan, where he went down to the Queen Elizabeth to greet his wife and daughter, Zinaida (a Moscow University professor of law), Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky was a honey bear to photographers, gave them his best peace-offensive smile...
...amorous consolations. In ignoring the merry truth about Sullivan (who did nothing worse than lonesomeness will make an emotional bachelor do), the moviemakers were doubtless bent on getting their man past the modern censors. In his own time, Sullivan was approved by a rather stricter custodian of morals: Queen Victoria, who granted him a knighthood...