Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...racquetmen have a bare chance of taking the league crown but it is almost certain that it will be won by the Newton Centre Squash Racquets Club...
Scene of State. In the, royal Robing Room, at Westminster, His Majesty donned once more "the ermine, the purple and the crown." Within the great Gothic hall of the House of Lords, Edward of Wales had already bowed to the empty Throne and "taken his place beside it. Through ancient stained glass, pale rays of daylight sifted. The Peers & Bishops sat robed and waiting. Justices were capped by wigs as big as beehives. Peeresses, crowding the gallery, wore again the flexible, diamond-studded bandeaux first introduced last year to replace old-fashioned tiaras...
Suddenly a whisper. Lights flash up, blazing upon countless gems. The Peers and Peeresses rustle as they rise and bow. Majestically the King enters. As he paces slowly forward, his crown is a mount of diadems, his train seems to stretch behind inimitably, borne by chubby pages with neat legs and little slim Court swords. His Majesty is England, rich, historic. When he speaks, his Dominions will listen, in their newness and youth...
...University team, provided an upset in the finals of the state amateur tournament when his speed and constant playing to his opponent's backhand gained him a victory in three straight sets over M. P. Baker '25 of the B. A. A. holder of the national amateur crown for the year 1926-27. Pool was beaten in the National Championship Tournament in Philadelphia, February 12 by the present champion, H. N. Rawlins '27. The experience and coolness of Rawlins was put to test in five gruelling matches before he overcame the Harvard captain...
...Crown during more than a generation when he was a leading administrator and expert on public sanitation in the Indian Civil Service...