Word: crowning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sometimes the solid mass in the vial changes to a red fluid in two minutes. Never does it take longer than an hour. The success of last week's exposition led Neapolitans to interpret it as a good omen for the birth of the daughter born to the Crown Prince and Princess of Italy...
Back to her comfortable little Huis Ten Bosch ("House in the Woods") drove gloomy Queen Wilhelmina, having made no mention of the one bit of news all Holland is waiting for: the engagement of apple-cheeked Crown Princess Juliana to Prince Bertil, third son of Sweden's Crown Prince...
...radio college" could claim Irene Beasley who at the National Electrical & Radio Exposition in Manhattan last week was crowned Queen of Radio for 1934. As a child in Whitehaven. Tenn., she used to play the bass while her 85-year-old grandmother played the treble. When she grew to a gangling 5 ft., 10 in., she started vocal lessons, hoped only to cultivate poise. But singing obsessed her even when she started school-teaching. Her radio début was over Memphis Station WMC. For two years she sang free in Chicago. Then Columbia Broadcasting System gave her a contract...
Born. To Umberto, 30, Crown Prince of Italy, and Marie Jose, 28, Princess of Piedmont, sister of King Leopold of the Belgians: their first child; in Naples. Name: Maria...
...generals of division-such at least was their number and rank according to the Italian Press-were summoned by War Minister Benito Mussolini to his great office in Palazzo Venezia at Rome last week for one of the Dictator's famed unilateral "discussions." Among the 100 generals fidgeted Crown Prince Umberto Nicolo Tomaso Jean Maria, Prince of Piedmont, General of the 25th infantry brigade and father of an infant on the verge of birth. A few years ago Crown Prince Umberto used to be the last hope of antiFascists who tried to believe that he once challenged Mussolini...