Word: queene
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...infantry is still "Queen of Battles." But the Queen was hardly recognizable last week; she was scuttling around like a maid-of-all-work. In the incessant tug-o'-war for prestige within the Army, the cavalry, the field artillery, even the infantry were on the defensive. What had their wind up was the rapid growth, the ambitious airs of the air corps and the armored force. The Germans in conquered Europe, the British in Africa had shown what this new combat team could do-and what could happen to nations which had no team, or a poor...
Intimates of Their Majesties last week received cards on which the King and Queen were seen standing in front of the bombed portion of Buckingham Palace. This type of greeting a good many Britons cheerfully called a "Blitzmas Card." Sold in the shops like hot cakes were many reading "Wishing You Anything But A Jerry Christmas!" Other humorists sent imitation ration cards, but most Britons sent the traditional type of Christmas card, as did Queen Mary, who chose again a rustic flower garden and quaint cottage. But this year Her Majesty's greeting read, "There'll always...
...proposed sending as negotiator General Kuniaki Koiso, who, after a previous visit to the Indies, had publicly made some abusive remarks about the Dutch. The Dutch said he would not be acceptable. The Japanese sent instead a Cabinet Minister, Ichizo Kobayashi of Commerce and Industry. To receive him fittingly, Queen Wilhelmina cabled from London raising Hubertus J. Van Mook. Director of the Department of Economic Affairs, to the rank of Cabinet Minister of the Dutch Government-in-Exile...
...Passengers of the U. S. liner President Garfield which docked last week in Manhattan told of seeing "6,000 or more" Italian prisoners (probably an exaggeration, for these Italian prisoners must have been taken before the Battle of the Marmarica) aboard the Cunarder Queen Mary in Bombay, en route to prison in Australia, whence the Queen will soon fetch 16,000 more Anzacs for the Middle East. In Bombay also they saw the He de France, idle; at Cape Town, the Queen Elizabeth, at anchor...
Wodehouse has been at it almost since Queen Victoria died, does not quite remember whether he has written 40 or 50 books. He is always just the same, usually just as good. Some critics attribute this titillating timelessness to the fact that he has raised the stage Englishman to the dignity of literature. Others have called him an acute social critic, professing to see the blunderings of Munich foreshadowed in the maunderings of Bertie Wooster...