Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early that afternoon in Brussels King Albert, eager for exercise, had slipped into his dressing room and put on an old pair of riding breeches and hobnail boots. His son, Crown Prince Leopold, was where he himself longed to be, at Adelbogen, high in the Swiss Alps. For a passionate Alpinist most of Belgium is as flat as a hand but lusty Albert thought he knew a place. Only a few days earlier the Belgian Cabinet had set aside the cliffs near Marche-les-Dames as a national park. Marche-les-Dames-"The Walk of the Ladies"- got its name...
...Belgians will have no king until he has sworn allegiance to their Constitution, a ceremony that was postponed last week until after the funeral of King Albert. For seven days then, the Belgians had no king. They were lucky in their king-to-be. Like his father, Crown Prince Leopold has had a hard practical schooling. He has served in the Belgian Senate. He has specialized in the study of Colonial administration. He likes to monkey with engines; he drives his own car. But his hobbies are safer: trout fishing and collecting butterflies. In 1926 he married dark-haired Princess...
...Vienna news of the Englis suggestion caused foreign holders of Czechoslovak crowns to dump their hordes frantically. At Prague the Czechoslovak Government tartly declared that "Professor Englis' suggestion is far from being realized," emphasized that only two days before Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Eduard Benes ("Europe's Smartest Little Statesman") had affirmed once again that the crown will not be taken off gold...
...great Skoda Munitions Trust of which Dr. Benes is a director went last week a 100,000,000 crown ($4,000,000) order from South America and "an Oriental country" understood to be Japan. At once 1,000 unemployed Czechoslovak munition mechanics hustled back to work...
...threat. Only malediction ever discovered in any Pharaoh's tomb was in that of Amenhotep, threatening despoilers with poverty and ostracism, not death. The curse story started when Howard Carter's pet canary was swallowed by a snake. A poetic native remarked: "The serpent from the crown of the King has eaten the golden bird. Bad luck will follow." That was an inspiration to certain newshawks who were disgruntled because exclusive story rights for the Carnarvon expedition had been given to the London Times...