Word: queens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Queen of the Netherlands, the Fourth Commandment means exactly what it says and is a specific prohibition against sport on Sunday...
That "sport" is "work" within the meaning of the Lord God is as clear to Queen Wilhelmina as the fact that the Allah of the Mohammedans undoubtedly meant to prohibit "spirituous liquors" when he prohibited "wine." The mere fact that neither "sport," in the modern sense, nor "spirituous liquors" had been invented when the Gods uttered their respective prohibitions is immaterial...
Pious Mohammedans rightly abhor such of their brethren as are so hypocritical as to drink spirits with the alibi that they are not drinking wine. Similarly Queen Wilhelmina has her own pious opinion of people who indulge in sport on Sunday, the Lord God's appointed Day of Rest. Therefore Her Majesty has been put in a quandary by the famed Olympic Games, now being held in Amsterdam with a pagan disregard of Sunday...
Diplomacy. Hitching a galaxy of stars to this antiquated vehicle by Victorien Sardou, George Crouse Tyler surprised Manhattan playgoers by the excellence of his judgment. The play, as translated by Sir Gerald du Maurier, seemed nearly as neat and sparkling as it did on the evening of Queen Victoria's "command performance," nearly half a century ago. Surely it was well played. William Faversham, 60, perhaps stung to effort by the recent and successful theatrical activities of his eldest son William Faversham Jr., gave an impeccable performance as Henry Beauclerc, the suave ambassador who, by sniffing the scent...
While all the publicity world bates its breath, a Diamond Queen and a Girl Lindbergh count one for the money, two for the show preparatory to passenger rides across the seas. Air rivalry, a duel of the clouds, is the motif seized upon by the fun--loving tabloids...