Word: tudor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold, rainy morning in the reign of Mary Tudor, an official barge swept up to the landing stage of the Tower of London. Out stepped 20-year-old Elizabeth, Queen Mary's red-haired half-sister, who had just been arrested on suspicion of treason. At sight of the terrible Tower, where her luckless mother, Queen Anne Boleyn, had lost her head, the Lady Elizabeth's legs sank under her, and she fell weeping on the wet stones. Then she pulled herself together and walked into the prison with her head held high...
Golden Horseshoe. The man whose literary killing was of such inflaming interest to George F. Babbitt and Secretary of the Treasury Fred Vinson was in Man hattan last week. He had breezed in from his newly acquired 15-room Tudor man sion on Duluth's lake front...
...flirtation with the little-theater movement was his friendship with Marcella Powers. She acted with him in a number of plays (see cut). Miss Powers decorated Lewis' Manhattan apartment (where he wrote much of his new novel, Cass Timberlane). When he bought (for a reputed $26,000) his Tudor mansion in Duluth, Miss Powers went out to visit him and decorate that. Says Lewis, when asked if he is planning to marry again: "No signs of it." Say his friends: "We just don't know...
...stairs were in the Hohenzollerns' last architectural effort-the Cecilienhof, a Tudor manor constructed in 1913-17 for the Crown Prince. In a graceful sweep, the stairs descended from Churchill's quarters into the 50-foot-high meeting room. These stairs were meant for a grand entrance, complete with aigrettes and sequins. Obviously (to finicky protocol experts), Churchill could not be allowed to come down the stairs while Truman and Stalin gawked at him from below...
...purchaser, the Hawker Siddeley Co. of London, which controls many of Britain's biggest aircraft concerns (e.g., A. V. Roe, Hawker Aircraft, Armstrong Whitworth), will continue to make the Lincoln bomber,* reportedly will switch to the Tudor, the civilian version of the Lincoln, after the war. The company has also agreed to maintain an undisclosed level of employment at the Canadian plant, set up a completely integrated aircraft industry in Canada, including research and development...