Word: queens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answer: "Good. Let's trim Elijah." You cite the feeding of Elijah by the ravens, and the prophet's ascension. Both are suggestive, and I shall not argue as to what the first sender had in mind. To me it suggested Elijah's flight from the queen when, fed by an angel he went forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.-1 Kings...
...George V entered the third month of his illness, the King-Emperor was officially described as "making slow progress" and unofficially as "brighter." Last week His Majesty napped frequently, displayed a keener appetite, chatted with Queen Mary several times daily, and asked, but was refused, permission to read...
...Prince George and Queen Mary recovered from their colds, the latter after her sore throat had been vigorously sprayed for a fortnight by Dr. G. S. Hett...
Married. Lady Mary Scott, goddaughter of H. M. the Queen-Empress Mary, daughter of the seventh Duke of Buccleuch; and Lord David Burghley, famed track athlete of Cambridge and the Olympic games, eldest son & heir of the fifth Marquess of Exeter; in London...
Died. The Noble Earls of Howe and of Egmont, on the same day. Richard George Penn Curzon, 67, fourth Earl of Howe, was Hon. Treasurer of the Allied Forces in wartime, 1914-1915; descendant of General Howe of American Revolutionary fame; onetime Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria; and Lord Chamberlain tc Queen Alexandra. Charles John Perceval. 70, ninth Earl of Egmont, had been merchant mariner, mounted policeman in Natal, border customer in Zululand...