Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Grant. III '34, top-ranking squash player on the Varsity squad, has advanced to the semi-finals in the tournament for the State Squash crown...
...scratching themselves in a barbed wire paddock; the bombardment of Ypres; a German officer burning his tongue on a spoonful of soup in Brussels in the summer of 1914. Some of the performers in The Big Drive are Lord Kitchener. Elsie Janis. Baron Manfred von Richthofen. Clemenceau. the Crown Prince, Tsar Nicholas of Russia. Producer Albert L. Rule, who was a private in the American Expeditionary Forces, accompanies his picture with a lecture which should have been composed by someone else...
Citizens of Sofia were on the qui vive. If they should hear an 101 gun salute that would mean that Tsaritsa Ioanna had been delivered of a Crown Prince-not by Tsar Boris of course. In his antiseptic gear he merely watched...
...usual Brother Svetozar Pribitchevitch led the pack last week, caused to be secretly circulated around Belgrade a book called King Alexander's Dictatorship. In this book Svetozar Pribitchevitch accuses His Majesty of planning a "desperate expedient" to save his Crown, nothing less than the "amputation" of that part of Jugoslavia which is fullest of troublemakers, namely Croatia...
...took the Jubilee Singers abroad after their New York success, to Stockholm where they gave 52 concerts in a single season, to England where Queen Victoria was a disappointment to them because she received them in a plain black dress and widow's cap, to Germany where the Crown Prince, father of the Kaiser of Doom, gave a glittering court reception more to their liking...