Word: christen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of the attendant annoyance it might have been wiser for Princess Mary to christen her baby publicly. If it were not for a king and emperor, for his opening of Parliament in forty pound robes of state, for a Prince of Wales whose tours furnish reams of copy the British Empire might not be the unit which it is today. Then, too, there is always the danger that if the circus-parade instinct of the British is not appeased the worried tax-payers will refuse to support an institution which, if nothing else, is an expensive luxury...