Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is it that looks like a coffee bean, tastes like a crisp pistachio nut and crackles when munched? As any Colombian gourmet knows, it is a toasted queen ant from Santander Department, and the very thought of the tasty tidbit is enough to make his mouth water...
...Vivian Fuchs arrived in London with his igman team at Waterloo Station, where he lit up a convivial pipe for photographers, who caught his wife Joyce in a mood that suggested he ought to change his tobacco. Later, "Bunny" Fuchs and his company dropped in on Buckingham Palace, where Queen Elizabeth knighted him (for leading the group on a 2,000-mile trek across the frozen continent), presented medals...
Without mommy's help, blonde, seven-year-old Princess Anne bravely walked into London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children-the first member of Britain's royal family to be treated in a public institution. Later, minus tonsils and adenoids, Anne greeted her parents Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, remained aloof from the carping of the London press, which weepily urged that the "lonely patient in Ward Dy" be allowed to play with the other kiddies...
Gusher. U.S. artists have consistently won impressive triumphs abroad since World War II, and this summer, with a record number of American musicians touring, they will dominate the European musical scene. In 1952 Pianist Fleisher won first place at Belgium's Queen Elisabeth Concours against far tougher competition than Cliburn faced in Russia. In 1956 Pianist Browning (a Leventritt Award winner in 1955) came within a sixteenth note of taking first in the same competition, finally took second to Russia's Ashkenazy. This summer there are even two other Texas pianists-Ivan Davis, 25, who won first place...
...businessmen as "lords of suburban villas . . . owners of vineries and pineries"; of Gladstone, "the Old Man in a hurry." At 37, Lord Randolph was Leader of the House of Commons, boss of the Treasury ("the youngest since Pitt"), and husband of the American beauty, Jennie Jerome. He maddened old Queen Victoria with his pugnacity and determination. "The youngest member of the Cabinet must not be allowed to dictate to the others," she barked. "Lord Salisbury must really put his foot down." Eventually, Prime Minister Salisbury put it down hard-and Lord Randolph flashed into obscurity like "Lucifer . . . fallen from among...