Word: wilhelmina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan night club in the basement of a onetime church, café-society playboys (including Peter Arno, Lucius Beebe, Jules Glaenzer) gave a coming-out party to end all coming-out parties. Debutante: Wilhelmina ("Tugboat Minnie") Frances Vandenbaard, professional model (under the name of Wilma Baard) and daughter of a barge captain. The party was timed to fill the papers a few days before the debut of café society's current Glamor Girl Brenda Diana Duff Frazier. Gowned gratis and gloriously by Macy's, Miss Vandenbaard from 11 p.m. till dawn greeted guests who came to laugh...
...Majesty last week appeared before Parliament and delivered a speech from the throne regretting that rearmament is already costing The Netherlands so much that the frugal budget for 1939 is unbalanced by 145,000,000 florins ($78,300,000). Realist Queen Wilhelmina warned her subjects that Her Majesty's Government may be forced during the coming year to ask "greater sacrifices...
When John Evelyn in 1641 thus recorded the flourishing artistic life of Holland, Jan Vermeer of Delft, who was to become the most finished realist of the Dutch School, was just nine years old. Last fortnight, visitors at a far greater fair-Queen Wilhelmina's Jubilee (TIME, Sept. 12)-found Rotterdam again furnished with pictures, and the greatest attraction of all was a painting by Jan Vermeer. Displayed among 450 Netherlands-owned masterpieces at the Boymans Museum, Christ at Emmaus (see cut) is no drollery but one of the three religious paintings ascribed to the artist. To Netherlanders...
...Netherlanders, Royalists to the core, their matronly, plainly dressed Queen is the incarnation of virtue, sense of duty and respect for the Constitution. Forty years a Queen, Wilhelmina has been troubled with only 13 Cabinet changes, a record low for continental Europe. She has always tried to associate the people with her personal joys and sorrows, frequently using the radio to discuss affairs of State and Royal Family...
...Japan is looking hungrily at the potent Netherlands Indies, Her Majesty radiorated confidently: "The peoples of the world are still suffering the consequences of the World War, but I feel convinced that all dispute and trouble can be settled with good will and united effort." But shrewd Queen Wilhelmina, with a good share of her $5,000,000 annual income coming from her eastern lands, trusts little in "good will and united effort" to safeguard them. Recently she saw to it that the native garrisons were increased, that a new 8,000-ton cruiser was laid down for service...