Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crown Prince frequently paid friendly visits to the young physician at the hospital to the great consternation of his solemn lifeguard of sometimes 3,500 magnificently armed men. He was born in 1909 according to Ethiopian calculation of time, but in 1915 according to our calendar. His name with titles looks like this: Mgorash Moered Atmatch Asfa Woosen. He is a very munificent monarch who talks many languages, a stately young man who lives in Dessye and governs that province, so to speak, to learn the art of ruling the entire country...
...Siamese takes things more easily. It was easy for the late, great King Rama V to beget 236 girls, 134 boys. It was easy for his successor King Rama VI to take the word of a Christian missionary that polygamy is wrong and beget no boy. This plumped the Crown into the lap of a son of polygamous Rama V who became King Prajadhipok ten years ago and abdicated in England last week with the greatest of ease...
Intercollegiate rivalry started in 1927 when a Notre Dame man consumed the prescribed twenty in just over a half hour. Since then the time has been repeatedly cut, but up to this point no son of Harvard has worn the crown...
...Since the King is in hereditary possession of the Crown Lands, since their enormous revenues are turned over to the Exchequer, and since His Majesty receives from the Exchequer only a fraction of this sum, the Kingdom has technically made itself an expense to the King, a parasite upon the royal purse...
Apparently the Baron, Chancellor of the Royal Masters Orders, had made a good thing out of orders turned back to the Swedish Crown by meticulous relatives after the demise of Swedish knights. Causing these golden gauds to be melted up, the Chancellor, according to Danish reporters, kept the gold himself, converted it into cash, and bought stock in a highly speculative firm engaged in the manufacture of Swedish skin food, lipsticks and eyebrow pencils...