Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...festivity that resulted eventually had a Winter Carnival Queen. The title and the role went out of style in the early '70s. Now the queen is celebrated only in a wonderfully awful 1939 Ann Sheridan movie that plays to packed houses at carnival time so liberated students can hoot at chaste girls "just dying to get pinned...
...addition to a queen, the carnival used to have a fine frenzy, a curious blend of gallantry and frustrated longing. Dartmouth men gladly vacated their fraternities and dorms so female guests could be sedately accommodated. Professors and their wives opened their homes and acted as chaperones to their students' dates. There was a great cooperative scurry to find segregated living quarters. "In those days," recalls Physics Professor John Kidder, "you could go all week without seeing a woman on campus. Then came carnival and women were everywhere. It made the whole place electric." Says another old grad...
Problems of state? Not at all, as Queen Elizabeth II, on the first leg of her three-week tour of Arab Gulf states, paused to chat with the Emir of Bahrain, Sheik Isa Bin Sulman al-Khalifa...
...sovereigns were discussing the races that the Emir, knowing the Queen's proclivity for horseflesh, had arranged for her to see at the Bahraini equivalent of Ascot...
...79th Street boat basin, skippers of the 80-strong year-round fleet include a drug-company officer, a masseuse, the owner of a thriving fashion firm, an inventor, a rabbi, an actress, a TV producer, advertising and insurance executives, a stock analyst, a nurse and a porno movie queen. Most started off by renting a boat for summer weekends. Then they became addicted, but kept an apartment as an anchor to windward. Then they gave...