Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idealist, and at romanticism and idealism the French have long been past masters. M. Maurois has made the past live with words succinct and decisive, sentences deep with comprehension, paragraphs full of irony and delight, chapters seething with critical observations; in all, a book that may well deserve to crown the host of Shelleyana...
...give thanks to France for having sponsored Abyssinia's entry into the League of Nations, arrived in la ville lumiere Ras Taffari, Crown Prince and Regent of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), the first of his House to visit Paris since the reign of Louis XIII (1610-1643). With him he brought two lions and two zebras for President Millerand...
...Home Affairs Rentaro Mizuno enjoined the Premier to hold on to office, it was not thought that the Premier would attempt it nor that Elder Statesman Saionji would recommend it. It was stated, however, that the Premier would remain in office until June 4, when the State celebration of Crown Prince Hirohito's wedding* (TIME, April 7) will have been held. Upon this date the Diet assembles and Kiyoura Government is expected to resign. The next Premier is likely to be Viscount Takaaki Kato†, four times Foreign Minister (1900-01, 1906, 1913, 1914-15), former Japanese Ambassador...
...probably unqualified by reason of his age and lack of political experience. Immediate hostility being expressed in foreign diplomatic circles, particularly by Mr. Edouard Herriot in Paris, the Nationalist leaders cast about for some means with which to quiet such unworthy suspicions. Alighting happily upon the already miserable Crown Prince, they suggest his temporary attendance at an agricultural course at Brealau, and remind him of the advantages which should result to his estate at Oala from a sincere, if transient interest therein...
...long ago news came out of Germany which told of some thousands of persons, who formerly possessed titles, banded together in an association to acquire experience in the domestic arts. This was humorously accepted at its face value; but when a similar story is started about the Crown Prince, who has been noted in the past for the agility with which he avoids anything even remotely connected with domestic art, a question as to his possible ulterior motives very naturally arises. But to cause a monarchist upheaval in Germany the Prince must gain the support of a vast majority...