Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conference plodded through imperial detail during the week and was understood to have secretly arrived at one notable agreement: hereafter governors general will have the status of viceroys. They will cease to represent the Crown and the British Government, and will represent only the Crown...
...belonging to an anti-Fascist organization of whatever sort, which will be punishable by imprisonment at the discretion of the court martial; 4) The death penalty (heretofore abrogated) will be revived in the case of traitors, rebels and persons who attempt the life of the Premier, King or Crown Prince...
Marshal Josef Pilsudski, in his youth the shaggiest of rampant Socialists, later the organizer of armies which freed Poland during the World War, at present Dictator, Premier and War Minister of the Polish Republic, began seriously to consider last week whether a crown would not well become his politically feverish brow...
Frank G. Parker of Chicago was clever but not wary. In 1921 he emerged from the Joliet Penitentiary after serving for four years because he had once been the "crown prince" of automobile thieves. He discarded automobiles in favor of airplanes. He became a hero. In 1923 a colony of fishermen were trapped by a blizzard on South Fox Island in Lake Michigan. Aviator Parker flew to their aid, carrying food and clothing. In 1924 he was a guarantor of the Carpentier-Gibbons fight at . Michigan City, Ind. People wondered whence he had acquired his wealth. Last week...
...Jeremy, in turn, received a 'crown' from England which was but a ridiculous laced hat yet helped to confirm his sovereignty in Central America...