Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is all very well until what lawyers call "the demise of the Crown." As the old King dies your royal warrant expires and the new King may or may not let you sweep his chimneys. Thus purveyors to the Crown are always more or less on edge. Last week they felt they ought to do something about the royal jubilee next spring, did something curious...
...Sofia last week beauteous, Italian-born Tsaritza loanna took the Zlateff coup calmly, seemed confident that General Zlateff will do as much to bulwark the non-existent Crown of Tsar Boris as Editor Mussolini has done to make safe the hereditary crown of her father King Vittorio Emanuele III, a holy crown too small to be worn, supposedly fashioned in part out of a nail from the True Cross...
Barbasol shaving cream and razor blades; America's Own matches; Böst toothpaste; Burnett extracts and spices; B. V. D.'s; Champion spark plugs; Crown overalls; Dictographs; Eberhard Faber pencils; Frostilla lotion; Musterole; Northern toilet paper; Penn-Rad oil; Venida hair nets; Zemo ointment; Runkel chocolate; Kreml hair tonic; Stokely strained vegetables; Winget Kickernicks for women...
...said in part: "In this seven-century-long struggle in Britain and America to take more and more power away from the crown, those who fought for the side of liberties for the people have been called, properly, 'Liberals.' The word became associated with those who fought for the now, because all change was in the direction of greater liberties for the people. Today, again a change is proposed . . . but this one in the direction of taking liberties away from the individual, conferring more power on the state. Yet those who promote this change call themselves 'Liberals.' I think they...
...until last week, when Britain's new national Unemployment Assistance Board took over administration of the dole from local bodies, was it possible to do anything about Loafer Head. Surprised, resentful, Mr. Head suddenly found himself the object of the Crown's displeasure under the new regulation providing that it shall be criminal for dole drawers not to make "honest efforts" to get to work. Swift British Justice cracked down on Frederick Head with a sentence of one month at hard labor, and all over the British Isles dolesters abruptly began to look for work...