Word: queens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This jolly song was heard every night last week by every Briton who tuned in on the London Daily Express's patriotic Egg Hour. Thus one of the Empire's great newspapers rallied to Her Majesty the Queen-Empress who recently signed an order in council (TIME, Feb. 25) decreeing that...
...extinct native royal line of Norway-and finally declared the present dynasty hereditary. To Oslo with King Haakon VII came the Princess he had married in 1896, the youngest (third) daughter of His Majesty Edward VII, British King and Emperor, to reign as inconspicuous and reserved but very popular Queen Maud of Norway...
...sight for the gods which no man paid to see was the royal guest from the Netherlands, the good-hearted but extremely pompous Prince Consort of Queen Wilhelmina. As this personage moved about Oslo, with tinkling spurs, jingling medals and a large clanking sword, it was permissible to exclaim: "There goes His Royal Highness, Prince Hendrik Vladimir Albertus Ernst of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Prince of the Netherlands, Duke of Mecklenburg, Vice-Admiral of the Fleet, Lieutenant-General of the Netherlandic and Indo-Netherlandic Armies, Chevalier of the Order of the Black Eagle, of the Order of the Seraphihs, of St. Andrew...
...Black Crook. It was on Sept. 12, 1866, that The Black Crook entered Niblo's Garden in New York. Buxom young ladies appeared in tights which revealed not only their ankles but their hips. In those days people believed with Queen Victoria in the theory that women had no understanding whatever. Next day James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald commended the city to the fire and brimstone of Sodom and Gomorrah. Sunday after Sunday pulpits boomed denunciation. Soon at Niblo's Garden there was only standing room...
...Queen of the Night Clubs (Warner). Although Broadway night clubs have served as a locale for more pictures than any other background except the western plains, there has not been one yet in which the patrons neglected to throw confetti or paper streamers, or to rise and cheer when the hostess, with a roll of drums, tripped in. Even now when Texas Guinan, perched on a chair-back with her suckers around her, invokes an atmosphere indisputably authentic, the public is not allowed to forget that her grown son, whom she has not seen for years, will presently turn...