Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article seems to the writer well calculated to inform your readers as to the present status of the British Crown, particularly as a constitutional device to unify the Empire...
...executive board was President Lewis himself, looking hot and tired in summer whites. "Hi, Jim, how are you, boy?" he greeted boyish, diffident James Barton Carey, secretary of C. I. 0. and president of its electrical union. Vice President Philip Murray was gravely on his dignity, as becomes a crown prince. Bronzed with a Florida tan, recovered from pneumonia, Vice President Sidney Hillman backslapped one & all. Mooning about like a bitter rabbit was little Alien Harry Bridges, whose services to C. I. O. on the West Coast may be terminated by deportation proceedings next week...
Such hair-raisers seemed a little out of plumb when 20,000 Czechs set out for the funeral of Czech Policeman Johann Mueller, killed by Germans last week. To his funeral the Czech Unity Party sent a crown of thorns. But when the jittery Czech Government (with concurrence of the Protector) called the rites off, the 20,000 Czechs went quietly home...
...inch just as a carpenter screws into wood. To his delight, new bone tissue soon closed tightly around the screw, and the patient was able to chew comfortably with the protruding head. After several months, Dr. Strock cemented a handsome false tooth shell, known as a porcelain jacket crown, on to the head of the screw, and the tooth looked and felt as good as a real...
...academic crown...