Word: vi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later, King George VI was sitting at his Georgian walnut desk in the lofty blue and white study of the palace, reading the morning's mail. Among the letters with embossed headings he saw Alfred's cheap writing paper and careful penmanship. He reached for it, read it twice, then handed it to his secretary with instructions...
...Bandleader-Motorboater Guy Lombardo wound up in the choppy Detroit River just after the start of the first heat. He swung sharply to avoid a rival, flipped over, sailed 15 feet through the air, escaped with a broken arm and bruises. His $100,000 speedboat, Tempo VI, was almost a total loss; experts thought they might be able to salvage the engine...
...edition of Shakespeare, the drawing illustrates ... one of Jack Cade's last boisterous speeches in Henry VI, Part II: ". . . I'll make thee eat iron like an ostrich...
Frank Stranahan of Toledo, who won the British Amateur golf championship five weeks ago (TIME, June 7), got some friendly advice from an unexpected source. After being presented to King George VI, he reported, "The King told me he thought I turned my left hand too far over when I grip the club...
When the real shooting began, Cotton kept close to the leaders with a 71. Next day he was presented to King George VI at the first tee (the first time a reigning monarch had ever witnessed a British golf championship). With his King watching, Cotton smacked a prodigious drive down the fairway. He birdied that first hole. Then he proceeded to tear Muirfield apart-green by green and fairway by fairway. His best round: a blistering 66, a record for the course in a British Open...