Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leafy Bois de Boulogne, there motored out last week from Paris the Cabinet of Premier Raymond Poincare. An air of mystery and suppressed mirth prevailed, for M. Poincare was not supposed to know that this luncheon was to commemorate the first anniversary of his present Cabinet and to crown the great labors by which he has restored the shaken finances of France. All the Ministers were there, even Mi Briand, just now recovered from his attack of "strawberry rash" (TIME, June 27), but no one of the assembled statesmen had an air so sly as that of Minister of Justice...
...Leyden. Her great ancestor, William of Orange, founded the University, 352 years ago. Her mother was created an honorary doctor of laws at Leyden (TIME, March 23, 1925). But next September all that is to be officially forgotten. By order of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, her only daughter, Crown Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, 18, will be known at Leyden simply as "Mejuffrouw Van Buren." Netherlands recalled that among the minor titles of their queen is "Countess Van Buren...
...young king between two royal ladies: 1) Princess Ileana (Michael's aunt) who rode in the procession because her mother, now only "Dowager Queen Marie," was "prostrate with grief"; 2) Princess Helene of Greece and Rumania (Michael's mother) who would now be queen had not her husband, onetime Crown Prince Carol, renounced and abdicated his rights (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926), and proceeded to Paris, where he now lives (see below...
...Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden and his wife, who were in the Stockholm Concert Hall listened with obvious pleasure. King Gustaf, also there, applauded vigorously...
...ninth, the tenth. Then she was women's singles champion at Wimbledon-and, by popular consent, women's singles champion of the world. Not since Miss May Sutton (now Mrs. Bundy) won at Wimbledon, 20 years ago, has a U. S. woman worn this supreme tennis crown...