Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even less privacy than that of the Duke of York is enjoyed by his elder brother, Edward of Wales, Crown Prince. If every newspaper in Britain watches the Duke of York's family, every news agency in the world watches Wales. President Karl August Bickel of the United Press last year bracketed the Prince with his father, George V, as the world's No. 2 news figure (after the U. S. President). Edward of Wales, attending another London banquet of last week, at the Carlton Club in honor of this year's Walter Hines Page Fellows (Robert Paine Scripps...
Ymuiden, on the North Sea, is the small site of the biggest lock. Thither rode two portly women last week from The Hague: motherly Queen Wilhelmina and womanly Crown Princess Juliana, who at 21 has the placid tastes and pious, frugal habits of a Dutch matron...
Rather sheepishly the magistrate explained that St. Gandhi was not being "arrested." After much delving the smart advisors of the Viceroy had unearthed an ordinance 103 years old. Under article 25 of this disused law it is still the absolute prerogative of the Crown to incarcerate under "personal restraint'' in India, "anyone against whom there may not be sufficient grounds for institution of judicial proceedings, or against whom such proceedings might not be adapted to the nature of the case." Foreign statesmen could but humble themselves again at this fresh proof of the British "genius for government...
Wilhelm, eldest son of onetime Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm of Germany, went up in a balloon with four companions near Konigsberg. Germany; was carried out over, descended into the Baltic sea, spilled out. A motor boat picked up two of the passengers. Wilhelm and the navigator swam ashore...
...Class B. Boston English High won the crown for state public high schools while Newton High trailed it in second position. In Class C, Quincy High picked up 22 points to gallop away from the field and take the honors in that class...