Word: queens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the first editions of several of William Makespeace Thackeray's works is a copy of "The History of Henry Esmond. Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majest Queen Anne, Written by Himself." This is of particular interest because it is the presentation copy; inscribed in Thackeray's handwriting: "Miss Brote, with W. M. Thackeray's grateful regards. October...
...Widener room, there are examples of many of editions of the work a very interesting one of which is Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book, which has all the pictures of the "Dance of Death" along the borders of the pages. Death" along the borders of the pages...
...Regina)-Queen...
DISRAELI-George Arliss makes this drama of the Prime Minister who loved peacocks, gardening and Queen Victoria as exciting as detective fiction. HALLELUJAH-blackamoor joys and sorrows. BULLDOG DRUMMOND-phantasms in a not-so-merry-England. WHY BRING THAT UP?(Moran & Mack) -the "Two Black Crows" of record and radio fame, repeat their inane, hilarious dialog for the cinema. HOLLYWOOD REVUE-elaborate photography of the Ziegfeld idea...
...asked their cooperation in getting more Canadian orders for British factories according to the plan recently outlined on a whirlwind tour of the Dominion by big, blarneying British Minister of Unemployment James Henry ("Jim") Thomas (TIME, Sept. 2). Ottawa. The quiet city dubbed Canada's capital by Queen Victoria is one-fifth as populous as bustling, industrial Toronto. But of Ottawa's 126,000 citizens a full 1,000 turned out as a mass committee of welcome marshalled by Dominion Prime Minister William Lyon McKenzie King. Canadians made a great point of the fact that Mr. MacDonald...