Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general election of that year, Greek voters gave Papagos' newly organized Greek Rally by far the biggest number of seats in Parliament. Frederika was more than ever fearful of the man who thus stood as her only rival for the love of the people. At the Queen's urging, King Paul seized on a technicality of the election machinery, passed over the Marshal, and called on a coalition of his leftist opponents to form a government. The following year, when Papagos ran again under a revised electoral system. Frederika devoted herself to preventing his election, despite past warnings...
Today, after a year of Papagos' government, none of the gallant gentlemen concerned will admit the slightest friction between themselves and Frederika. Peurifoy and Grady have only the highest praise for her. The feud between the Marshal and the Queen, which never got far beyond the cafes of Athens in any case. seems to have been tacitly forgotten by everyone concerned...
...inches. -(l.r.) Constantine, Paul, Frederika, Sophie and Irene. -"He didn't know who I was. but he took one look [as Frederika sat talking to Queen Farida |, ordered his wife out of the room and switched off the light. I was quite terrified. If I slapped his face, I knew it might cause all sorts of international complications. So I just stood up and said, 'That very big man outside in the naval uniform is my husband, and I love him very much.' Farouk simply 1'aughed, turned on the light and walked...
...Queen's Example. All winter and the following autumn, Mrs. Spiers sent Eva to school in slacks. Every Monday the headmistress spotted her in the hall, and sent her home for the week...
...town magistrate for keeping Eva out of school. He too was blazing mad. "Nobody wants his child to go to school more than I do," he said. "She can go to school in hail, rain or snow, but as I dress her. When the east wind blew, the Queen put Princess Anne in slacks. When I put my daughter in slacks, I am prosecuted...