Word: queenly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Member of the Order of the British Empire, an honor bestowed four months ago by Queen Elizabeth for Bassey's services to Nigerian sports...
...adversary is the Church of England, which has made half a million converts in Uganda, has long been tied to the forward-looking elements in the country. King Freddie, who was raised as an Anglican and crowned by the Bishop of Uganda himself, wants to divorce his attractive Queen Damali and marry her more vivacious older sister Sarah. He is annoyed that Anglican ecclesiastical law forbids it, has been hinting he might become a Moslem...
Into the Background. The affair between King Freddie and his sister-in-law has been an open secret in both London and Kampala. While the queen has drifted farther and farther into the background, unmarried sister Sarah has been getting a larger and larger share of the royal attention, now lives in the palace along with her two sons. King Freddie says frankly that they are his. He is less outspoken about Queen Damali's son, who was born in Kampala just nine months after the queen visited him in his London exile. The attending doctor declared that...
TOGETHER AGAIN, gushed the Daily Express, IS IT GOODBYE AGAIN? asked the Daily Mirror. To Londoners, the boldface heads and bolder prose meant one thing: while Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip were paying a state visit to The Netherlands, tight-lipped Group Captain Peter Townsend, 43, at the end of his 17-month, 60,000-mile world tour, had driven in his green Rover to Clarence House, residence of Princess Margaret, 27. While hundreds milled around outside, the two chatted, sipped tea, then left separately after nearly three hours-he to a rented flat, she, beaming, to a movie premiere...
Pile & Putter. While Lucy moves into the dressing room that Ginger Rogers once occupied as queen of RKO and keeps an eye on the commissary (she hates "bad studio food"), Desi will reign in an oak-and-leather throne room, surrounded by deep pile, a disappearing bar, and a putter alongside the desk. The new Hollywood tycoon is already awakening echoes of older ones. As workmen remodeled buildings for directors, producers and writers, he said: "Those cubbyholes were no good. Our offices are going to be twice that size. These are creative people, and creative people gotta have room...