Word: wulff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rigidly towering silhouette in the last three decades has become a symbol of British royalty as familiar to newspaper readers the world over as France's Eiffel Tower. Last week in Her Majesty Queen Mary (Sampson Low, London; 125. 6d.), Press Association's Buckingham Palace Correspondent Louis Wulff provided a semi-official but nonetheless intimate glimpse of Mary during her years as Queen Mother. It reveals a Victorian as stern as she is self-disciplined, a queen who takes herself seriously...
...completely and punctiliously before breakfast alone in her dining room. At 9:30 she summons one of three noble Women of the Bedchamber who serve her in shifts of two weeks each, and together they go over the morning mail. "It is Queen Mary's inflexible rule," writes Wulff, "that every letter she receives shall be answered [in longhand] with the extremely rare exceptions of importunate letters from undesirables and occasional missives from unfortunates out of their senses...
Hale & hearty at 82, the Queen Mother has no use for weakness of any kind. Her standards are as rigid and unchanging as her styles in hats and dresses. At one of her rare visits to an exhibition of modern art, says Wulff, "Queen Mary frankly did not like what she saw . . . Rather than offend the feelings of the artist by expressing her opinion, she remained silent...
Sawyer was driving home Angelica Wulff, daughter of an MIT professor. Going up Lancaster street, he saw a man standing in the middle of the road with his hands...
...cause of topography, meteorology and zoology, scores of ships, thousands of men, were swallowed by the Arctic. Sweden's Dr. Wulff, crossing the Greenland icecap with Rasmussen, became' too tired to eat; but as he crawled on, he "jotted down notes on the surrounding flora," dictated to his companion a concise summary of the local vegetation, and then said quietly: "Now I can go no further. . . . Will you find a place for me where I can lie down?" In 1930 John Courtauld, pioneer of the British Arctic Air Route Expedition, volunteered to remain snowed-in for an entire...