Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania, eldest son of King Ferdinand left Paris by private airplane, refused to state where he was going, was not followed by correspondents...
...called "bobbies" in honor of their founder. So greatly do Britishers respect their p_olice that citizens swelled with indignation last week when the Chief Commissioner of London Police charged "bobbies" with being discourteous and inefficient. One nice old lady accosted a "bobby," presented him with half a crown, said: "Now, don't you listen to what anybody says...
Friedrich Wilhelm, sometime German Crown Prince, received a tribute of esteem last week from pre-War U. S. Ambassador to Germany James Watson Gerard. Said Mr. Gerard, speaking at the Lawyers Club, Manhattan: "The Crown Prince is a man of far greater ability, to my mind, than his father, and I think he is one of the most shamefully maligned individuals in the civilized world. Possibly on that account he will not be called to the throne; but the chances are that his eldest son Wilhelm, who is quite a fine young man, will be. Politically, of course, anything...
...wondered why he chose to utter even the most guarded praise of Wilhelm, who, in 1914-18, was introduced to the U. S. as a rat-faced youth, leering synthesis of cowardice and cruelty. They forgot that Ambassador Gerard looked occasionally for several years upon the actual face of Crown Prince Wilhelm. What does he look like anyway...
Ruthless, caustic German Editor Maximilian Harden, tooth-and-nail foe of the Kaiser, described the onetime Crown Prince after the War, as "a good fellow, very popular with the people, brave and personable." Something like this may have been in Mr. Gerard's mind last week when he called Wilhelm "most shamefully maligned." But to Allied peoples "The Crown Prince" will always be rat-faced', and probably for long detestable...