Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This cumbersome title represents a neat straddle. Mr. Asquith would have been honored out of all proportion to his services to the Crown had he received the earldom of Oxford, originally conferred by the Empress Matilda on Aubrey de Vere in 1142 and accordingly weighted with hoary honors beyond expression. By adding "and Asquith," the powers-that-be adroitly earmarked as of recent bestowal a title held in its day by what Macaulay described as "the most illustrious line of nobles that England has seen...
...Woman, Boat. Above six feet in height, full of face and broad of figure: Oscar Frederick William Olaf Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Skane and Crown Prince of Sweden. Small, dark, sharp of feature: Louise, Crown Princess of Sweden, daughter of Prince Louis Battenberg, second cousin of the Prince of Wales, great-granddaughter of the great and plump Victoria. Under their feet: the motor-ship Gripsholm making its way into New York Harbor...
...First Interview. Upward of 60 cameramen crowded around snapping. "Very amusing," said the Prince. "Good morning, ladies and gentlemen of the press," he continued in English. "The Crown Princess and I are glad to see you this morning and so many of you. ... I shall be glad to answer any questions"?he qualified this by excepting questions on politics. Then for the first time in history the Crown Prince of Sweden was interviewed. Yes, he had been called an archeologist. No, he was not a criminologist. He had done some carpentry as a boy, but was not worth 25?...
...State Department took the visitors on a city ferryboat. Governor's Island fired 21 guns. The municipal fireboat sent eight streams of water high in the air. At the Battery a guard of Marines escorted the party to the City Hall. Mayor Walker made a speech. The Crown Prince made a speech?quite professionally?into the radio microphone?departed for Washington...
...Expelled from Roumania last week because the authorities at Bucharest deemed his despatches "insulting to the Crown and Government." Numerous U. S. newspapers rallied to the Times, joined the New York World in editorially flaying the Roumanian Administration as "a government which uses the King as a dupe (TIME, Feb. 15), flimflams a Crown Prince out of his throne (TIME, Jan. 11), strong-arms elections and rules for the exclusive benefit of a reactionary minority...