Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently he traveled to Italy, conferred with Mussolini, and returned to Belgium "fired with the ideal of action." Last week he acted up, scandalized most of his steady-going countrymen. His followers staged an anti-cabinet demonstration in Brussels, just as Crown Prince Leopold and Premier Viscount Poullet were about to receive the War standards of several disbanded Belgian regiments at the National Army Museum. Scattered throughout the crowd of 40,000 persons who witnessed this ceremony, the fledgling Fascists created a terrific uproar: "Keep the Army at full strength! Down with Poullet! Hang him! Vive la Belgique immortelle! Hurrah...
Amid pandemonium, the Fascists threw their own hats, and all the hats they could snatch, into the air. Mistaking a streetcar employe with a red "danger" flag for a Communist, they drubbed him soundly. Premier Poullet "turned pale," escaped discreetly through the back door of the Museum, leaving Crown Prince Leopold to receive the Fascists' cheers...
...Yoshihito Harunomia. His eldest son Hirohito, the Crown Prince, acts as Regent of Japan. His third son is Nobuhito Takamatsu-no-miya; his youngest is Takahito Sumi-no-miya...
Trox Von Ulmeholz, a Dobermann pinscher who, in his slyness, his effeminacy, bore a subtle and not uncomplimentary resemblance to the onetime Crown Prince of Germany. Owned by F. E. Fischer of Leominster, Mass...
...Clampett, who led the prayer service, prayed: "For the great army of scientists, God, we praise Thee. Forgive their mistakes, sanctify their efforts, crown their conquests. Greater than creed is the pureness, the kindliness, the gentleness, the sweet serenity of his [Burbank's] life and character. For his services to humanity, his great contribution to science, his great love of his fellows and above all his love of little children, we praise Thee." Dr. Gordon with gentle wit, to sympathetic laughter, put his arm about Mr. Burbank, saying: "We would be delighted to receive Luther Burbank into the fellowship...