Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Riza Pahlevi, by that time Premier, was elected by the Majlis to be Shah and King of Kings with "full powers" which make him in fact independent of the Majlis. Always domineering, he now became the utter autocrat and one day even kicked his first-born and beloved son Crown Prince Shapur Mohammed Riza into the palace pond for a trifling offense...
...Socialism only a transitory phenomenon, Germany would have been lost. The importance of these persons should not be overestimated. If we stamp our feet, they will scurry to their holes like mice. We have the power and we will keep it. Our power is absolutely unlimited. Not even the Crown Prince can take it away from us, because the people are behind us. Reactionaries point backward; we point forward...
...week both were nervous as tomcats. Each seemed to fear some hitch or double-cross. Each whipped his Press into absolute silence. Round about Venice, which Il Duce had not visited for eleven years, citizens, puzzled by elaborate preparations for they knew not what, jumped to a conclusion that Crown Prince Umberto was coming. Germans supposed their Chancellor was still in the Fatherland until their Press told them that he was already soaring over the Alps. Rome stressed that Berlin had asked for the meeting. Berlin tried to give an opposite impression by releasing press handouts explaining Chancellor Hitler...
...poem of Herbert M. Howe '34 stressed the hope that Harvard's sons may attempt to scale new heights and with the words "Whatever works they may praise of merit or good fame shall be to three so noble crown of bays" drew a picture of the relation of success in later life to one's college. John Cotton Walcott '34 in his Ode pictured the purpose of Harvard is education to "First spur our intellect, home of our will, firm keep they face...
...thousands people poured into Jacksonville (pop.: 7,000), "tomato capital of Texas," to see Queen Billye Sue Hackney crowned. A parade two miles long, with 25 floats, took one hour to pass through its streets. Trumpets blared across the baseball field, pages and ushers bowed and scraped as the Queen, escorted by the Royal Court of the Tomato, stepped up on a platform, and Jacksonville's Mayor Acker slipped a crown of jewels over her head. Jacksonville danced and drank far into the night at the Queen's Ball, and next day 5,000 farmers went...