Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first received public notice as a war correspondent during the Boer War. In 1900, when Queen Victoria was still on the throne, he was elected to the House of Commons, where he served--except for the years 1922-1924--until October, 1964. His Parliamentary career was the longest in British history...
...million farm-machinery fortune (the Deering harvester, McCormick reaper), whose considerable philanthropies (Northwestern University, Chicago's Art Institute, Illinois Children's Home & Aid Society), gold-plated dinner parties and regal mien won her hands-down election in a 1954 Chicago Daily News poll to choose an "official" queen of the city's society; after a long illness; in Chicago...
...King's anger and into the respect of the chorus. Robert Egan as Tiresias, the blind soothsayer, also allowed me to float by on the prose, mouthing what he could not see with such taste and skill that Yeats himself taunted the King Joanne Hamlin, who played Jocasta the Queen, adopted the precise style a bit too faithfully, speaking moderately, to be sure, but not quite forcefully enough for the part...
...once the bubble burst. When Queen Anne died, the Tories were summarily turned out of office. Swift was lucky to be left with a dreary benefice in Dublin, the deanship of St. Patrick's Cathedral. The shock permanently damaged his mind. All his nightmares of rejection recurred: he suffered fugues of persecution in which delusory daggers and imaginary nooses pursued him. "I am left to die," he wailed, "like a poisoned rat in a hole...
Mythical War. Liberia's President Tubman completely furnished his executive mansion at Macy's. Tonga's Amazonian Queen Salote outfitted herself for Queen Elizabeth's coronation by purchasing six Macy's gowns (size: 24). Some of the most avid customers are the visiting materialists from Russia and its satellites, who enjoy picking at Macy's the fruits of capitalist enterprise. For those who cannot make the trip to Herald Square, Macy's has a personal shopping service. Among millions of routine assignments, it has dispatched six bottles of Coppertone to a sunburned Englishman...