Word: vi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife, the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, would soon return to Britain. They have lived in informal exile ever since Edward abdicated his throne (1936) to marry the Baltimore-born "woman I love." Court circles were stiffly unastonished, implying that they had known for weeks of King George VI 's approval of his brother's return. The homecoming was un officially scheduled for August, when the royal family will be rusticating in Scotland's Balmoral Castle. This arrangement will avoid any embarrassing meetings between the Duchess of Windsor and Queens Mary and Elizabeth, who do not approve...
...Pixy Bridge at Ballasalla in the Isle of Man drove Britain's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. At the bridge, their Majesties cried: Evie, manyagh veggar! (Greetings, Little Men!). This was necessary because the pixies in the glen below whistle while they work and hence do not hear the approach of strangers. They have been reported to wreak horrible vengeance on unannounced intruders...
...loinclothed subjects, King Ninji, chocolaty ruler of a stretch of New Guinea jungle, last week presented another royal scion-the Duke of Gloucester, brother of Britain's King George VI and Governor-General of Australia. The King wore a headdress of cassowary plumes fixed to tambu shells, from which dangled bits of wood and metal from a wrecked airplane...
Though for months Vi's were whistling all around the theater, the cast never missed a performance. "There were plenty of times when we were ready to chuck it," one young actress admitted, "but what could we do when Dame Lilian kept going on?" Dame Lilian Braithwaite, Arsenic's Abby Brewster and the English stage's Grand Old Lady, can be more frightening than bombs. A clergyman's daughter who has triumphantly passed almost 50 of her 70-odd years in the theater, she looks like anybody's sweet old grandmother. But she combines plenty...
...Lincolnshire grocer last week became one of the top dignitaries in the Church of England. Nominated by King George VI to be Bishop of London* was popular, friendly Right Rev. John William Charles Wand, 60, Bishop of Bath & Wells (TIME, Sept...