Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signing of what is destined to become a historic document. At his side was Lieutenant General Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marquis de Estella, Grandee of Spain, Dictator under the ample title of President of the Council. His presence seemingly threw a dark shadow over the Spanish crown. The pen descended at the foot of the royal desk. It wrote: "Alfonso...
...Crown. Most significant is the suggested legislation concerning the succession to the throne. It is reported that King Alfonso has agreed to empower the National Council (in other words Primo de Rivera) with the right to pick any member of the royal family as heir to the throne...
...succession is not endangered by the carelessness of the Imperial Stork, for Hirohito has three brothers?Prince Yasuhito, 25; Prince Nobuhito, 22; Prince Takahito, 11. But nothing can alter the fact that the paramount duty of the Empress is to provide her royal lover with a bouncing baby Crown Prince. The joy of Japan would know no limit, if this happy event should occur...
Time was (1922) when Jack Britton wore the welterweight champion's crown. He wore it so skillfully and sensibly. that he retired from the ring with several hundred thousands in the bank...
...Crown. Anton Smetona, popular father of his country and the first and present President of the republic of Lithuania (founded 1918), politely, firmly, magnificently refused the offer of a golden crown last week. A group of tenacious monarchists raised the flag of royalism, which has been a dead emblem many years, because they felt that the country would prosper, as it did of old, under the sway of an autocrat and because they thought that the President, with themselves as his courtiers and advisors, could raise the standard of Lithuania to its highest eminence...