Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eight drives for extra bases, the former leading in three-baggers, and the latter in doubles and in circuit drives. Lord's total of five three-ply wallops is far ahead of the field, while Chauncey's latest home run broke his tie with Lord for the slugging crown, and swelled his total to three hits for the round trip of the bases...
...been for two weeks a U. S. Senator said to a newspaper friend: "Seven men are running the Senate and I am one of them." That man was Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, who last week died of heart disease in his Indianapolis home. He was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, near the grave of James Whitcomb Riley. Onetime Senator Beveridge was famed as orator, author, statesman. While at De Pauw University he won an intercollegiate oratorical medal, awarded in another year to the late Senator Robert Marion LaFollette. Entering the Senate in 1899 he was an ardent Imperialist, supporting McKinley...
Citizens of Madrid divided their enthusiasm last week between a young man of 28 who kills bulls, and a Crown Prince of 32 who urges on dogs to kill foxes...
...Danilo Petrovic, Crown Prince of Montenegro until that realm was united with Jugoslavia (1918), entered a cinema theatre in Paris, last week, sat down, composed himself to view lily-fleshed Mae Murray in The Merry Widow. . . . Next day a wrathful M. Danilo Petrovic strode into the office of M. Joseph Paul-Boncour, famed barrister, repeatedly French representative before the League of Nations, known because of his silver tongue as "The Socialist Demosthenes," several times retained as an attorney by the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania. For an hour the statesman-lawyer and the onetime prince laid their heads together...
...comparatively simple matter. But it seems that the increase of unconventionality has brought a new set of problems that make that life of a prince a delicate matter. The Prince of Wales, the most prominent of the younger royal set, having substituted a felt hat for a crown and flannel trousers for princely regalia, is said to have been a disappointment to Spain. Evidently Spain expected a more traditional sort of dignity. The sobriquet that young Edward earned was "Prince of Jazz", and the epithet does not seem to have been meant favorably...