Word: queene
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...read to the Lords and Commons by the King-Emperor in his "Speech from the Throne"-actually written last week by Messrs. MacDonald and Snowden in council. As though for a zero hour, the Empire braced itself for the gorgeous moment next week when King George V and Queen Mary would sally from the robing room of the House of Lords (see cover), when His Majesty would signalize the momentous rebirth of the Mother of Parliaments by the gracious words, "My Lords, pray be seated...
...make the wedding possible, last minute concessions were made by the Bulgarian Government which, three weeks ago, was still demanding that the prospective eldest heir male of their King & Queen should be reared Bulgarian Orthodox. As Princess Giovanna is Roman Catholic, the Vatican continued to insist that all her prospective children be reared Roman Catholic, finally won this point last week...
Commissioned by TIME to paint the King & Queen of Great Britain in Parliament robes (see front cover) Artist Edward Barnard Lintott of London, Paris and Manhattan* was at home last week in his pale green, high ceilinged 57th Street, Manhattan, studio. Now 54, Artist Lintott looks ten years younger, is large and broad, immensely genial, bears a marked resemblance to London's favorite music-hall comedian, bushy-browed George Robey. As a painter he lived ten years in Paris, studied under the late great Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Jean Joseph Constant, wrote a text book on watercolor painting...
...Emancipator, by a Freshman Gamaliel Bradford who wrote, "Abe Lincoln, his big feet more than filling the shoes of his weak-kneed predecessor, Buchanan, stepped into that gay, social whirl of guile and graft at Washington with a threatening warcloud darkening the Southern horizon." Another budding historian explained that "Queen Elizabeth was by this time firmly entrenched on her throne...
...provinces added to Rumania after the War as Tran sylvania (Maniu birthplace); 2) successful intrigue by the Rumanian Minister at London, Nicolae Titulescu, through wily henchmen in Bucharest; 3) the anger of King Carol at Dr. Maniu's repeated insistence that His Majesty must not be crowned until Queen Helen becomes reconciled and consents to be crowned with...