Word: tray
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Miss Elizabeth Lisle, 104, prominent in British society during the Victorian era; in London. Presented at court in 1845, she was fond in later years of telling how Queen Victoria slid down stairs on a tray on the eve of ascending the throne...
...queen who slid downstairs on a tray...
...table a large tray containing soup, coffee, bottles of certified milk, educator crackers, of course, and salted tongue sandwiches. I have always assumed that these last are a traditional luncheon from the days of Massachusetts Bay. Business goes on without interruption while each Fellow helps himself...
...interpret Debussy, whether he wagged his head. They noted that he had a good back. They noted that every now and then, when he wanted to indicate a sudden pianissimo, he shot his left hand into the air, palm flat, in the way of one who hoists a heavy tray or thrusts a torch aloft. For the rest, his gestures were continent. He led Debussy's Nuages; Honegger's Pacific 231, Scriabin's Poem of Ecstacy. Like a storm of white hail came the clapping. With inexorable courtesy, Koussevitzky bowed and bowed...
Thus all hung for a moment upon Toppie. When she retired to a convent to end her days in ghostly communion with her dead disloyal Owen, Giles came to himself, crossed the Channel, was changed from Old Dog Tray into the Fairy Prince...