Word: crownes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every now and then, when buxom Queen Marie of Jugoslavia has a son, Great Britain's Duke of York packs his bags and travels to Belgrade to act as Godfather and represent the British Royal Family at the christening. He went when Crown Prince Peter was christened, he went again when Prince Tomislav was christened (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928). But last week when Queen Marie's third son was about to be christened at Castle Bled, the Duke of York, though invited, stayed at home, delegated his second cousin, onetime Queen Elizabeth of Greece, to be chief sponsor...
Buxom Queen Marie's stern consort, Alexander I, is called "King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes"?three peoples commonly called "Jugoslavs" (southern Slavs) for short. The potent, ruthless Serbs are the dominant race. Therefore the first son of Their Majesties?their chubby, five-year-old Crown Prince?bears the grand old Serbian name of PETER. When a second man-child was born (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928) the Croats got their innings, for the babe was soon Croatianly christened TOMISLAV. With Serbs and Croats satisfied it was high time, last week, to think of appeasing the Slovenes. Anxiously Queen...
From interesting Santa Fe, N. Mex.,* scampered Charles Augustus Lindbergh last week,† with a new nubble in the crown of his fame. Henceforth he must be considered the U. S.'s first flying archeologist, for the week before he initiated in the neighborhood of Santa Fe the first formal attempts of U. S. archeologists to locate digging sites by aerial photographs...
...flattened nose, in his lean torso. Baffled but vicious, the Italian continued his savage rushes. To "Long Count" Dave Barry, referee, they looked convincing. But not so convincing to the ringside judges. So, after ten hard rounds, by vote of 2 to 1, Sammy Mandell kept his seldom-risked crown, was very glad the struggle was no 15-rounder...
...club for artists, dramatists, musicians, authors and persons appreciative of the arts. Among the membership of 2000 are David S. Jordan, Lieutenant-General Hunter Liggett, John Masefield, Edwin Markham, E. H. Sothern, William Howard Taft, David Warfield, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Ignace Paderewski. Honorary members include Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden: Sir Hubert Brand. Rear Admiral, British Navy; Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University. On the Russian River, near Monte Rio, is located Bohemian Grove, where Bohemians gather each summer. On the August Saturday night nearest the full moon they give a play. The 1929 play, A Guest...