Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Caesar the things which are Caesar's, 5) quickening the corpse of Lazarus, 6) saving the Woman Taken In Adultery with the admonition, "he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone," 7) driving the money changers from the temple, 8) refusing the earthly crown of power, 9) resisting the temptation of Satan, 10) partaking of the Last Supper, 11) being tortured by the Roman centurions, 12) being condemned by the mob who chose Barabbas for pardon, 13) crucified, 14) hanging on the Cross while the earth is torn by melodramatic storm and quake...
...London, earlier in the week, Prince George, youngest son of the King Emperor, entered the booth of a crystal-gazing fortune teller, laid down a crown. . . . "Your father," said the seer, "was a sea captain but he has retired." Prince George nodded encouragement. His father, the King Emperor, did indeed command H. M. S. Melampus in his youth. "Your eldest brother . . . wait, young man . . . you must warn him! I see him in the crystal. . . . It is tomorrow. He rides in a race and I see him fall. . . ." Laughing, Prince George strode from the booth. Later he warned Edward of Wales...
...dislike very much the speakeasy-padlock method. Far better is the English system, under which the plays are censored before they are produced, not afterwards. The Crown appoints a Lord Chamberlain, and all prospective productions are submitted to him. Lord Cromer now holds the position. He reads all the plays and censors them not only from a moral, but from an artistic point of view. No free publicity is given to shows which have parts expurgated nor to those from which the permission of production is withheld. True, the position is a difficult one, and the man who holds...
...that I took the title from Sullivan and I held it until '97 when Bob Fitzsimmons made the solar plexus famous with his blow that earned him the crown. It's queer but no one but doctors had ever heard of the solar plexus before that scrap, but ever since he floored me with that left of his it has become a catch word in boxing. In spite of the fact that I held the title five years after that I really had my greatest fight with Jefferies in 1901. Fitzsimmons wouldn't give me a return fight...
...whole profession has changed a great deal since my days. When I took the crown from Sullivan the whole purse went to the winner, and as it was Sullivan didn't get a cent, not even for, his training expenses. In Dempsey's last fight he got $300,000 regardless of whether he won or not. Fight like that takes all the incentive away. It made very little difference to him whether he won or lost. Believe me when I got into the ring with Sullivan I fought like a fool because it either would make or break...