Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surely Elizabeth, our Queen, deserves...
...pompous past and the champions of a folksier future. With such rebels as Malcolm Muggeridge and Lord Altrincham on the one side demanding that Britain's monarchy bring itself democratically up to date, and the outraged ranks of the old guard on the other demanding that the Queen's critics be drawn and quartered, it has long been obvious that something must give. Last week, a terse, two-sentence announcement from Buckingham Palace tolled the knell of doom for the first innocent victims of the battle-the 800-odd young maidens who each year are ritually presented...
...There will be no presentation parties after 1958," said the palace bulletin that put the signature on their death warrant. "The Queen proposes to hold additional garden parties in order that larger numbers may be invited to Buckingham Palace." "A deb," said Palace Press Secretary Richard Colville, by way of fuller explanation, "can no longer apply to meet the Queen. There is no one she can apply to. In fact, there will be no debs. They are finished...
...Parliament's opening, Britain's Queen Elizabeth 11, her words coming both for and from her ministers, announced that the Tory government will shortly introduce legislation creating lifetime peerages for both men and women. Such a law, if passed, would for the first time in history plunk "lady lords" down beside gentleman lords in Britain's Upper House.* This stratospheric feminist victory was hailed by "delighted" Virginia-born Lady Astor, 78, bodkin-tongued widow of a viscount and first woman to sit in the House of Commons. With due appreciation to the Queen, Nancy Astor said...
...Follet. death came suddenly in 1955 for Author James Agee, 45. Born in Knoxville, a graduate of Harvard, Agee spent 16 years as a writer on FORTUNE and TIME, and during the last years of his life worked on the scenarios for such movies as The African Queen, The Quiet One, Face to Face (in which he also appeared in a bit part). With each of his few books-Permit Me Voyage (1934), a collection of poems published when Agee was scarcely out of college; Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), an angry Depression report on sharecroppers...