Word: tomboys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward VII, late British King-Emperor, had a wasp-waisted tomboy daughter Maud who swam, rowed, handled a yacht smartly, ran a typewriter, bound books, carved wood, played chess, advocated female suffrage-energetic traits which she inherited from her Danish mother, the dazzling and haughty British Queen-Empress Alexandra, sister of still more dazzling, still more imperious Marie Feodorovna, Empress of All The Russias. The two Empresses were resolved that Maud should become at least a queen- of what...