Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...royal face, small, round and rosy, peeped from a window in the stern facade of Buckingham Palace one morning last week. Out the palace gate was clattering a coach of gilt and glass. Above it the three golden genii of England, Scotland and Ireland supported replicas of the Crown, the Sceptre, the Sword of State and the emblems of knighthood. Within the coach rode awfully the King-Emperor and the Queen-Empress...
...huge Palace of Westminster, called the Houses of Parliament, the lords and mighty prelates of the Realm were sitting on benches of soft red morocco. The King and Queen were on their thrones-His Majesty bedight with "the ermine, the purple and the crown." Queen Mary's robe of cloth-of-silver, blazing with diamonds, betokened that the Court is no longer in mourning for the late Queen Alexandra...
Princess Helene of Greece and Rumania suddenly returned to Bucharest last week from Rapallo, Italian Riviera (TIME, Feb. 7), although she had announced her intention of remaining there the rest of the winter with her infant son, Crown Prince Mihai. Reputedly King Ferdinand, wracked by illness, had suddenly indulged the whim of an invalid and recalled the Princess. The King's brother, Prince Wilhelm von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, also was to arrive last week at Bucharest...
Dixon, present title holder, Cazalet, singles champion of England last year, Wright and Baker are the four most favored competitors in the race for the crown. Cazalet has beaten both Dixon and Wright, scoring a comparatively easy win over Dixon, and coming up from behind to beat Wright in the Canadian championship finals...
...Prime Minister to govern. He does not have to reward Babbits with the use of the Marines; he can make them peers with opposition from none but the House of Lords--a simpler and cheaper process. And Americans are great royalty lovers. They will greet a queen or a crown prince almost as effusively as a woman who swam twenty-five miles in cold water...