Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crown, Family & Horses. She takes seriously her task of being Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Queen of Canada, Queen of Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, Ghana and South Africa-and in manner she grows increasingly queenly. Not long ago a palace official who has known her since childhood leaned his arm on a mantel in Her Majesty's presence. "Are you tired?" she asked. He replied: "No, ma'am. Why?" Said Elizabeth: "Because I think you should stand up straight when you are talking to me." She runs her royal household strictly-and with a clear awareness...
Harold Thomas has spent most of his adult life following Rotary's twin ideals. Says he: "I think Rotary day and night." Born in a tent in the wilds of frontier New Zealand (his middle name honors the Maori chief whose wife delivered him), he fought in France in World War I, went back to Auckland to become manager of a tiny furniture company. He soon took over, expanded the company until it now spreads through New Zealand. He joined Rotary in 1923, only two years after the club got to New Zealand. As the "NZers" flocked into Rotary...
...nexus of both pragmatism and natural law in diplomacy is the secret weapon against totalitarian regimes," the U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand told alumni of the Law School and Graduate Schools yesterday at Harkness Commons...
...School Alumni Association and Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research will hold their annual joint luncheon today at Harkness Quadrangle. Speakers will be Francis H. Russell, U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand, and J.N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature...
...help get the ball rolling, the CRIMSON has a flock of candidates who must be placed in the "sure thing" category. Francis Russell, Ambassador to New Zealand, will be in Cambridge on June 11 and is regarded as practically a certain choice for an honorary. Likewise, J. N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, one of the foremost scholars in the country, will probably receive a degree...