Word: queenly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Royal Film Performance in London this fall, Queen Elizabeth II faced a scrawny, sharp-featured young man with shaggy blond hair lying like a bunch of damp seaweed across his forehead. How, the Queen asked, did he like movie work...
...During Queen Elizabeth II's visit to the U.S., the Saturday Evening Post stirred a tempest in British teacups with an article titled: "Does England Really Need a Queen?" Its author: brilliant, acidulous...
Even before the Satevepost reached U.S. newsstands, Muggeridge's studiously fair discussion of royalty blew up outraged headlines (A SHOCKING ATTACK ON THE QUEEN) and out-of-context quotes in London's dailies. British ' readers responded in highly un-British fashion by bombarding Muggeridge with hostile letters that ranged from the scurrilous ("your effeminate voice") to the scatological (one letter, reported Henry Fairlie in the London weekly Spectator, had been "rubbed in either animal or human excrement...
...Sanka. Then he set about bouncing back with a vigor that astonished his staff. In pajamas, beige dressing gown and slippers, he padded about the second floor of the White House, later got dressed in slacks and sweater, settled down to work at his easel on a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II's daughter, Princess Anne. He sought and got his doctor's permission to receive a few official visitors-Nixon, Adams, Hagerty and the King of Morocco. He put in a half-hour's formal work on state papers, signed his name a dozen times...
...exhibit Britain's painting of the 18th century, the British Council has assembled 86 paintings, including four owned by Queen Elizabeth II, 16 by Canadian and U.S. owners (see color pages).* Opening last month at Ottawa's National Gallery, the show will move on to Toronto and Toledo, Ohio before the paintings are sent back to their owners. One indication that the four years spent in planning and collecting the show would pay off handsomely: despite the fact that Ottawa was charging admission for the first time, attendance in the first two weeks ran more than double...