Word: crownes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a Parliamentary election looming for next June, jubilant Laborite candidates prepared, last week, to shout from every platform in England that their Conservative opponents have "gagged" H. R. H. The deplorable process of dragging the Crown into the election was even begun in the House of Commons, when Lieutenant Colonel Charles Kenneth Howard Bury, M. P. [Conservative] insinuated that some* miners prefer living on the dole to work, a chorus of Laborites shouted: "Liar! Sit down! You have insulted the heir to the throne...
...weak; his right, monocled eye was nearly sightless. In the War both his legs were lacerated by shrapnel. He contracted a stomach malady which he knew to be incurable. But he fought bravely, wrote plays and poetry. As a vice consul in Holland he received the fleeing Kaiser. The Crown Prince was his crony. Never married, he often said his three wives were "the pen, politics and aviation." He was in the advertising business...
...Harvard team has hopes of regaining the national crown which it held for three consecutive years but lost last year to the New York aggregation...
...Baker '22, former national squash racquets champion, is favored to win the Massachusetts crown when he meets T. E. Jansen '26 in the finals of the state tourney at 5 o'clock this afternoon on the University squash courts...
...power at Belgrade?until he went to St. Petersburg to join the Corps des Pages of the Tsar. He was a younger son, and when his father, Peter I, succeeded the murdered Alexander Obrenovitch in 1903, he had no expectation of reaching the throne ahead of his elder brother Crown Prince George. However, a distressing malady forced Prince George to renounce his right of succession in 1909, and a similar necessity obliged King Peter to appoint Prince Alexander regent on June...