Word: bovenizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside the Palace in the tidy, central square, The Dam, thousands of broadfaced Dutchmen, big-bosomed matrons and holiday-garbed children, faces scrubbed red as Edam cheeses, milled about shouting the famed cheer for the House of Orange: "Orange Boven" ("Orange Up!"). Reason for the "cheers was that their beloved Queen last week observed two anniversaries: her 58th birthday and the completion of her 40th year on the throne. Technically. Wilhelmina, Europe's longest-reigning sovereign,* became Queen 48 years ago on the death of her father, dissolute King Willem Ill, but Queen Mother Emma served as Regent until...
Dressed all in white mourning, she scarcely looked up as her loyal subjects tingled their bicycle bells on the sidewalk and roared the old Dutch cheer: "Orange Boven! Orange Boven! Orange up!" Ten automobile loads of Dutch Communists tried to cut into the royal procession and were beaten back by helmeted Hague policemen. Her Majesty ignored them as her coach rolled past the moat into the medieval Binnenhof, seat of the States-General...
Crown Princess Juliana ultimately followed her rustling mother out of Parliament. Lusty as ever rose the famed Dutch cheer for Royalty: "Orange Boven! Orange Boven!" ("Orange up! Orange up!").- To Parliament next day Finance Minister Dr. D. J. de Geer sheepishly reported that for the first time in seven years the Dutch budget is out of balance, shows a small deficit of $3,615,300. This in part the Government proposes to make up by "increasing the liquor excise" and "economizing." Two days after good Queen Wilhelmina failed to name a fiance, the Swedish press heard that the name...