Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week got a rare chance to show that it knows the genuine article when it comes along. It came−a sweeping constellation of exalted royalty, heralded by the solemn magnificence of equerries, secretaries, aides and ambassadors−and the U.S. found that Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, not symbols alone, but flesh-and-blood people, respond with the same human warmth and simple good will that Americans hold out to them...
...symbols, there were aplenty: the Queen and Prince arrived in the U.S. from Canada, landing, in their R.C.A.F. plane near Williamsburg, Va., at a place called Patrick Henry Airport. Spaced among a dozen occasions of ceremonial pomp, they spent the day touring the old, restored towns of Williamsburg and Jamestown, which is celebrating the 350th anniversary of the first permanent British settlement on American shores. Through it all, crowds of eager-eyed onlookers strained at the heavily guarded barriers, marveled at Elizabeth's cordially regal attitude, Philip's smiling nonchalance. "Say," said...
...morning President Eisenhower and a score of U.S. and British Commonwealth officials waited at Washington National Airport with thousands of well-wishers as the President's plane Columbine III softly landed. Stepping carefully down the ramp and into a long, slow handshake from the President of the U.S., Queen Elizabeth smiled a little nervously, gratefully accepted a bouquet of roses from Mrs. John Foster Dulles. Following the Queen, Prince Philip, hatless, debonair and full of bounce, joined his wife and the President before a swarm of polite but persistent photographers (who epitomize, the President explained to the Queen with...
...guests as they rolled slowly in the President's bubble-topped Lincoln. As the Eisenhower grandchildren flattened their noses against the upstairs windowpanes, Mamie Eisenhower (who changed her dress at the very last minute from peony red to olive green) stepped to the White House porch, took the Queen's hand, burbled: "Welcome! We have been watching you on television. We have been wanting you to come for so long. My, you look pretty...
...Douglas is the third speaker who has been engaged by the Freedom Council. Christian A. Herter '15, U.S. Under Secretary of State, accepted the Council's invitation last week, but announced Monday that the Syrian crisis and the visit of Queen Elizabeth would prevent him from filling the engagement...