Word: queene
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Here was the issue, squarely put, but Mr. MacDonald adroitly avoided it. To be sure the British battleships Queen Elizabeth and Ratnillies (mounting between them 16 fifteen-inch guns) were already racing for Alexandria from cruising spots in the Aegean Sea. But Mr. MacDonald said that "His Majesty's Government is determined not to inter- vene in the purely internal affairs of Egypt," and all present understood what he meant. For minutes after this popular announcement the House of Commons rang with cheers...
...past two years rumors issuing from Spain have pictured Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie as coming under the influence of a necromantic physician such as the notorious Rasputin. As doting Tsar Nicholas II fell under Rasputin's spell because he believed that the "Black Monk" and he alone could stop the bleeding of the Tsarevitch, so the Spanish Royal family were said by their enemies to be the dupes of a second charlatan. Spanish censorship veiled the facts...
Born. To Senator Guglielmo and the Marchioness Maria Cristina Marconi: a daughter. Name: Maria Electra Elena Anna. Godmother: Italy's Queen Elena. She is the first child of the Marchioness, there being three other Marconis (a son, two daughters) by the inventor's first wife...
...limousine jumped King Alfonso XIII of Spain, unhurt by flying glass. He shook hands with the young woman driver of the two-seater, handed his card to a police inspector, got back into the limousine, sped on to Bucking ham Palace, arrived punctually for lunch with King George & Queen Mary...
Bushy-haired, Rome-born Maestro Sal-maggi has presented grand opera for many a year. Great & good friend of the late Enrico Caruso ("with him I was like a brother"), onetime mandolin teacher to the late Italian Queen Margherita, all his life a musician & music promoter, Maestro Salmaggi nevertheless has no love for an age that has reduced music largely to phonographs, radios. Feeling no musician can avoid the temptation of thus being reproduced he cries with Latin vehemence: "I would rather have a boy of mine [he is nine times a father] be a barber than a musician. Anybody?...