Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...First Lady watched from a white speedboat while her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill, went water skiing on Vouliagmene Bay. Later she was driven 26 miles to Tatoi Palace, a forested retreat in the foothills of Mount Parnes, for tea with King Paul and Queen Frederika...
Frightened or not, the officers make Pip doubt the sincerity of his motives, and he pivots on his Achilles' heel right into the officers' ranks. Played out to the anthem of God Save the Queen, the final scene is an ironic blend of parade-ground smartness and mocking bitterness. Pip has been broken, and the conscripts are to be shipped out as clerk fodder. Though Wesker probably intended something more hopeful, his play says in sum that you can't change the bloody upper classes-or the bloody lower classes either...
...small copper plate such as might be used to engrave a visiting card, Mr. Barnard cut a pretty profile of the young Queen Victoria, but instead of engraving "Post Paid" along one edge of the stamp,* he made it "Post Office...
...Queen Victoria Street. The new General aims "to do the job we've always done, but better and more efficiently." He has no intention of dispersing the Army's hard-puffing brass bands, or of pleasing younger officers by adopting a slightly more chic uniform: "I think the lassies never look prettier than when they're wearing their bonnets...
...Jamaican massacre was one of the ugliest episodes in the history of the British Empire. Even so, in an earlier era it would probably have passed unnoticed by the homeland. But in the England that Queen Victoria presided over for so long and controlled so little, democracy was on the rise. Radicals, who were demanding universal suffrage and an end to upper-class privilege, decided to make an issue of Eyre. How well they succeeded is the subject of this book...