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Word: queenly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wearing a dark business suit beneath his pomp-and-circumstantial ermine-trimmed scarlet robes, Prince Charles last week took his seat in the House of Lords. After swearing allegiance to both his mother and himself ("Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors"), the prince self-consciously donned the floppy black Cap of Maintenance. Then, like any mere peer, Charles retreated backstage and bummed a cigarette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 23, 1970 | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

...Doubell professes to care little for glory or gold medals-or even that his Olympic time of 1 min. 44.3 sec. equaled the world record of New Zealand's Peter Snell. "From the moment I touched the tape," he says, "it was all downhill, anticlimax, God Save the Queen and all that. Who needs national anthems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ralph the Rapscallion | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

...heavyweight boxing championship, the two burly contenders tiptoe to mid-ring and embrace with consummate passion! A new luxury liner turns out to be propelled by a gang of seminude galley slavettes, who bend to the oar under a whip cracked by everyone's favorite sado-maso slave queen, Raquel Welch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dead End | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

...Mary Queen of Scots, Fraser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Sellers: Feb. 16, 1970 | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

...tunes in the ballroom at Buckingham Palace as Master Farceur Noel Coward, 70, was dubbed a knight of the realm. In a simple, almost offhand ceremony, the entertainer knelt on a small stool and took a sword tap on each shoulder ("very lightly, thank goodness," he said later) from Queen Elizabeth II, who wore street clothes. "The Queen was absolutely charming," Coward told newsmen. "She always is. I've known her since she was a little girl." Then Sir Noel strolled off with a lady on each arm, wearing a rakishly tilted top hat and his new knighthood very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 16, 1970 | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

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