Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Contents: a pair of white gloves. Significance: When judges made a circuit of ancient English towns to hold assizes, any town which had no criminals to be tried celebrated such a "maiden assize" by presenting the judges with white gloves-because judges as a mark of submission to the Crown wore none while executing the royal commission...
...jittery Prague, President Eduard Benes' nephew, Jiri Benes, front-paged an editorial declaring blandly that Neville Chamberlain has sent Lord Runciman to act as a "witness for the Crown" in case war begins at the Czechoslovak border. Its conclusion...
...iron-jawed British court-martial convened last week in the locally celebrated case of a Sergeant-Who-Watered-The-Beer -Of -The - Officers' -Mess -At -The -Tower-Of-London (where His Majesty's beer-bibbing Beefeaters guard the Crown Jewels...
...Crown jewels seldom travel, but King George and Queen Elizabeth, responding to the costly hospitality of their French hosts, brought along $7,500,000 in jewels from the Tower of London, including the 106-carat Koh-i-Nur diamond for Her Majesty to wear at the Paris Opera. Two Scotland Yardmen were deemed enough to guard the Crown jewels, plus 50 blue trunks and pieces of luggage, each lettered in gold, THE KING. Their Majesties left the channel port of Boulogne-sur-Mer by special train for Paris over a cleared track guarded by 50,000 French troops...
After a 26-day U. S. visit which proved that the better behaved a royal family may be the less interest it holds for a democracy, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, Crown Princess Louise and Prince Bertil of Sweden set sail for home on the Gripsholm. They said they had a wonderful time. As a gift from General Motors. Prince Bertil took back with him a shiny new 8-cylinder Cadillac sedan...