Word: wilhelmina
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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During the week Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. 49, and Crown Princess Juliana, 21, were in Norway, yachting among the fjords...
...Colonial Ministry of plump Queen Wilhelmina last week distressed officials admitted that some 9,400 miles away in Dutch New Guinea a number of her loyal subjects were undoubtedly being cooked and eaten...
...making this announcement the Dutch officials stressed that Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina, "greatly, moved," had ordered her Governor of Dutch New Guinea to hunt down the cannibals without mercy. Native runners presently reported that members of the Dutch East Indian police had overtaken and routed a large war-party of the cannibals-recovered several women...
Ymuiden, on the North Sea, is the small site of the biggest lock. Thither rode two portly women last week from The Hague: motherly Queen Wilhelmina and womanly Crown Princess Juliana, who at 21 has the placid tastes and pious, frugal habits of a Dutch matron...
With matronly determination Queen Wilhelmina grasped a handle attached to a long wire, gave a resolute tug. At the other end of the wire the gate mechanism tripped. Slowly open swung two doors of steel taller than the biggest Dutch wind mill. Tooo! Tooo! Tooo! screamed the whistle of a new Dutch liner, the Johan Van Barnevelt (18,000 tons) as she steamed into lock. Doors closed. Sluices opened. In twelve minutes the enormous volume of 3,000,000 cu. ft. of sea water poured into lock. Gates at the far end opened. Out to the North...