Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Colonel in Chief of the Royal Highland Fusiliers and, among other things, president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. Suffering from flu, the princess lay ill abed at Windsor Castle, where the royal family had assembled for an extended Easter holiday. There, according to well-placed reports, Queen Elizabeth II had a serious talk with her younger sister about Margaret's swinging lifestyle. Reason: the princess's reputation, as well as her health, was ailing. Not only was her name being splashed luridly and critically across the headlines of British tabloids, but her government allowance...
...raise by means of the "civil list," which was taken under consideration by Parliament last week. In all, the Labor government announced a 9.2% increase in the allotment for the royal family, raising the total to $5,290,000, with most of the money going to the Queen. How much of the increase was Margaret's only the Prime Minister and the Royal Exchequer knew, but her raise was estimated at about $10,000, which would bring her annual salary to around $110,000. Parliamentary anti-royalists were unhappy about that. Said Laborite M.P. Willie Hamilton, Commons' most...
...sheep there are bound to be" and argues that it is no crime for a Windsor woman to admire younger men, particularly in England's second Elizabethan age. "Admittedly," adds Worsthorne in afterthought, "Roddy Llewellyn is no Essex or Walter Raleigh, but then she herself is no virgin queen." The princess's defenders also recall Margaret's pathetic trauma of 1955, when she was forced to end her much publicized romance with R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend...
...hammer, shotput, discus, and javelin events are likely Harvard powerhouses. Ed Ajootian, coming off a good indoor season, should fare will with the hammer, while Joe Pelligrini, throwing 167-ft. plus, will power the discus event. Chris Queen leads a shotput threesome, and a potentially strong duo of Dave Kinney and Mike Stewart will work the javelin...
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend him your ears. After almost 20 years of yearning to play Shakespeare, Richard Dreyfuss got his big chance in The Goodbye Girl, portraying an outlandishly gay Richard III -the King as a queen. This time, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Drey fuss is playing Shakespeare straight: he is Cassius to George Rose's Julius Caesar. Dreyfuss, who has a hankering to be a history teacher, has thought a lot about his roles. Richard III, he feels, was one of the most wonderful of English Kings and needs rehabilitating. As for Cassius...