Word: wilhelmina
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...Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, visiting her daughter, Princess Juliana, went shopping in little Lee, Mass. "Good morning, Queen," said the drugstore man. The ruler from the land where people scrub their homes with soap & water bought a sponge. "I am old-fashioned," she explained. "Everybody else uses a washcloth, but I like a sponge for my bath." She moved on to the furniture store. "Good morning, Your Majesty," said the furniture-store man. The Queen priced linoleum, bought an inexpensive grade. It was for the bathroom floor; her granddaughters had been splashing it with water. She moved...
...little town of Lee, Mass. (pop.: 4,222) was to harbor a royal family this week: Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, Princess Juliana (who has taken a house in Lee for the summer) and her daughters, Princesses Beatrix, 4, and Irene, 2. Last week 61-year-old Wilhelmina re-rejoined her daughter and granddaughters in Ottawa after a two-year separation. In the offing before she returns: a visit with the Roosevelts...
...large studio on Manhattan's upper West Side. In Roermond (southern Holland), where he had left behind him a vast, factorylike workshop with 15 busy assistants, blue-eyed Joep (pronounced "Yoop") Nicolas had engineered such towering feats of glasswork as the famed memorial windows for Queen Wilhelmina in Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk...
...professional copy of Conrad Helfrich. That was Johannes Theodprus Furstner. An instructor at the academy said of them: "If war comes to Holland next time the world is set afire, I hope it comes before 1942, because Helfrich and Furstner will be admirals." Admiral Furstner is now Queen Wilhelmina's Naval Minister-in-Exile...
...Jersey prison for killing his wife, and was pardoned last summer because of his music, took up a new career as an arranger for CBS and Count Basic's band. Last week his new career ended abruptly. He was locked up because his lady love, Wilhelmina Washington, was found dead, all cut up with stab wounds...