Word: queene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bedford's sister was divorced by Earl Cadogan (who owns one-quarter of London's arty Chelsea district) on the ground of adultery with the earl's former accountant. "If this pace keeps up," said one Londoner, "there will soon be no one on the Queen's lawn at Ascot [to which divorced persons are never invited] except Prince Philip and the Queen herself...
...this twice before, gave no hint that this was in any way a romantic marriage. Last week, when the police checked to see whether Teheran's shops were displaying a portrait of the Shah, some merchants thriftily dug out a picture of the Shah with his beautiful ex-Queen, the childless Soraya, and at least one found a photograph of him with his first wife, Fawzia (sister of Egypt's King Farouk), who had borne him only a daughter...
...seven times, repeating, "Allah be praised." Three times the black-turbaned Imam of Teheran asked Farah the question, "Are you prepared to marry the Shahanshah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi?" Only the third time was Farah supposed to answer "Yes," lest she appear too eager. When the answer was given, the Queen Mother placed a diamond necklace around Farah's neck, and the Minister of Court brought the couple two gold rings upon a golden tray. The Queen Mother and Farah's mother showered the couple with handfuls of pearls, gold coins and candied almonds, and outside, the cannons boomed...
What woman do Americans most admire? For the twelfth year, according to Gallup pollsters, the answer is the same: Eleanor Roosevelt, 75, by her customary wide margin. The distinguished others, in the order of their mention: Mamie Eisenhower, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Clare Boothe Luce, Helen Keller, Madame Chiang Kaishek, Patricia Nixon, Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Singer Dinah Shore. Tied for tenth spot in the survey: Monaco's Princess Grace, Britain's Princess Margaret, India's Madame Pandit. Gallup pulse takers announced the results of their similar quest for the world...
...Side by Side." Last week, settling back for a winter's hibernation in his white bungalow in Aberdeen, Hulet calculated his season's kills at 56, fretted to his wife about a lost dog ("Queen's a part of me, kind of wildlike and vicious to everyone but me"), and spun yarns to a visitor about great hunts of the past: "The closest call I've ever knowed, I shot a bear at close range that was tearin' at the dogs. The bear he jumped up and leaped right at me. I shot...