Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vienna newspapers headlined: INFLATION IN THE U. S.! WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE DOLLAR? Prague, where the crown is tied to the dollar, was wildly excited...
...behind news cameras are trained to be as impassive, as mechanically efficient in time of crisis as surgeons or telephone girls. By hook or crook they must get that picture. Last week to the venerable dean of Paris news photographers, Louis Piston, came the opportunity to crown his adventurous career by photographing the assassination of the President of the Republic...
With many bottles of sekt (champagne), former officers of the Imperial German Army last week celebrated the 50th birthday of long-necked Friedrich Wilhelm, onetime Crown Prince of Germany. Granting an interview to the foreign Press for the first time since his return from exile (1923), he said: "... I cannot avoid hitting straight from the shoulder. . . . Have you proud and free Americans any inkling of what it means to make a proud people submit to special laws and regulations...
...though to give a crown of complete fatuity to all that has been said and done about limiting the freedom of the college press, from the University of Northwestern comes the report of a series of restrictions by which the morality of the editor will be strictly guarded from any taint. In the new order of sweetness and light, any reference to birth control is taboo; Miss Margaret Sanger is not to be named in print; Al Capone and his boy friends must not be mentioned; no stories may be printed reflecting on the morality of coeds at Northwestern...
...Italian fire boat last week, spouting high in the air. After it came a gaudy gilded gondola-of-state. Seated in the stern sheets were small King Victor Emmanuel and large Queen Elena of Italy, swathed in pearls. Other gondolas, other barges followed, carrying Princess Maria of Italy, Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark and other notables. The whole procession debarked at Venice's public gardens to open the 18th Biennial International Art Exhibition and inspect the U. S. building where Ambassador & Mrs. John Work Garrett were waiting to receive...