Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worst typhoon since 1906 struck the British Crown Colony of Hongkong. The wind blew at 130 m.p.h. uprooting huge trees and hurling them like matches hundreds of yards away. Telephone cables were laid low, most of the business signboards were smashed to splinters or blown away, many houses were unroofed. In the harbor the typhoon lashed the waters into a white fury. Many ships, including a British submarine, were sunk and many more driven ashore more or less damaged...
...Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm was reported to have terminated his visit to Doom and to have returned to his island home at Wieringen, off the coast of North Holland in the Zuider...
Broken Engagement. Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, from Lady Louise Mountbatten, daughter of the late Marquis of Milfordhaven (TIME, July 9). According to reports, she never wished to marry the Crown Prince, who is a widower, but consented to the engagement under pressure from her cousin, King George...
...Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm was reported to have terminated his visit to Doorn and to have returned to his island home at Wieringen, off the coast of North Holland in the Zuider...
...former Empress Zita of Hungary, widow of the unfortunate Charles, who died in exile on the island of Madeira in 1922 after two attempts to regain his crown, has not even the right to her own jewels, according to the Italian Government...