Word: queens
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...guilty or not, the guy folded like a tent in front of Queen Jerri and the assembled cool crowd, offering up his razors with a truly pathetic look on his face. And if you're an Army guy who can't fish, can't bond with others, and lets an old lady with plastic teeth outsmart you in the Tribal Council (although technically, Maralyn voted for "Cal," so maybe that doesn't count), you're better off back at the base saluting toilets with a toothbrush...
Services to Queen Victoria...
Appleton Chapel was well filled on the occasion of the service in memory of Queen Victoria, Saturday afternoon. No elaborate decorations had been attempted, but the pulpit was draped with British and American flags, and with the purple of mourning...
...great have been the achievements under the last sixty years of British rule that the Victorian Age must be a mark in history. Yet it is not for this that we most honor the dead Queen, but from the witness of her life that "it is possible to live nobly, even in a palace." Because she was free from worldliness in the greatest of world-centres; because she held simple faith and love above all that the world could give, we forget the monarch we have lost, and remember only the woman and the friend...
Alas, this easygoing tolerance suffered a heavy blow last week. In a parliamentary vote, Prime Minister Tony Blair's massed ranks of Labour Party deputies voted to ban the practice outright. It isn't the law yet--the House of Lords (another eccentric English institution) and the Queen (who was recently photographed strangling a wounded pheasant) must eventually give their consent. But the Queen and her Lordships have about as much clout in Cool Britannia as foxhunters and retired generals. Centuries of English rural loopiness will therefore shortly join the ranks of extinguished British institutions, like red telephone boxes, farthings...