Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lest They Forget Re your footnote comments on Queen Elizabeth's German ancestry | Nov. 1: of German testl are our Eisenhower, Can ada's Diefenbaker. But the Russians are really outdoing us and the English. They fired the Lord Himself and gave the job to the German Karl Marx, who replaced the Bible with Das Kapital...
...Kitt advanced her feline personality across the footlights," wrote a London critic, "offering songs full of menace and other unmentionable qualities and complaining I Wanna Be Evil, as if we did not know." Then, after the Royal Variety Performance, Eartha became a wide-eyed child in brief converse with Queen Elizabeth...
...camera's stare had perhaps added to the seemly behavior of the members of the House of Commons, who entered the lordly precincts solemnly-unlike the day "when Queen Victoria opened her first Parliament and the members of Commons thundered in like steeplechasers, racing each other to the Bar, and one of the members for Sheffield dislocated his shoulder...
Insults & Accusations. Under the great chandeliers of the Lancaster House music room, where Chopin once played for Queen Victoria, the Premiers bickered, shot insults back and forth like poisoned darts. When the conference took up the ticklish problem of how to protect the rights of minorities among Nigeria's 250 tribes, Awolowo suggested creating three new states. The North's Sardauna, not wishing to relinquish any of his own territory, vetoed the idea. Nor did he like the plan for a centralized police force under the federal government: he much preferred to use his own force, which, answerable...
Eternity lasted less than a day. Lured by three phone calls from London, Lady Beatty returned, her lovely face rashless. Nevertheless, when it was finally time for the benefit, Frankie assured his audience, including Queen Elizabeth, that "I came from Los Angeles just to do this job, not to get married." When he was presented to her, the Queen asked: "Hello, how are you?" Said Frankie: "I'm well...