Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Foreign Secretary, and today he is an influential though erratic M.P. and Deputy Leader of the Labor Party, widely respected for his administrative ability and integrity. He also tends to be noticed wherever he goes, peering down a well-upholstered lady's cleavage at a party aboard the Queen Mary or enthusiastically hugging and kissing a factory girl during a tour of the Midlands. Last week, clutching his familiar amber worry beads, he returned from a three-week nonofficial tour of the Middle East, and officials in both Cairo and Jerusalem were still shaking their heads over the ineffable...
Such pronouncements are not taken lightly in the land where Tennyson once advised a recent bride that she could consider herself fortunate if her husband treated her as "something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse." Queen Victoria, an early champion of the society, declared that "no civilization can be complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures." By her standards, Britain has reached Utopia...
...Britons own pets, including 5,000,000 dogs and 5,000,000 cats, plus incalculable numbers of hamsters and hedgehogs, budgerigars and even baboons. Churchill used to disclose "secrets I could tell no man" to a favorite poodle. When an American visitor at a royal military review observed that Queen Elizabeth was bearing up nobly under a beastly sun, a British matron snapped back: "It's the horses must be really suffering...
...Mary Queen of Scots, Fraser...
...Mary Queen of Scots, Fraser...