Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Felician Slawoj Skladkowski. A week after his visit. Hosts Moscicki, Smigly-Rydz and Skladkowski made their little neighbor, Lithuania, knuckle under to their will with an ultimatum (TIME, March 28). By this time Mr. Hoover had journeyed through Finland, Estonia, had missed a luncheon date with Sweden's Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf because fog delayed his Baltic steamer, and popped in on Copenhagen. From there he continued by plane for England to catch the Normandie...
...several weeks, officially tagged "Miss X." This slim, bobbed-hair blonde, English to judge from her accent, arrived curvesomely sheathed in clinging black, kept shifting her handsome fur piece with the sinuosity of Mae West, as she testified before a bug-eyed judge. "She is a lady," explained the Crown, refused to divulge her name...
Clustered miserably in the prisoner's dock day after day were four men who, according to the Crown, had been caught red-handed by Miss X. All were once-trusted employes at Woolwich, the chief British arsenal: Albert Williams, armament examiner; George Whomack, assistant foreman of the gun section; C. W. Munday, assistant chemist; and P. E. Glading, only a minor employe at Woolwich, but featured as an important Communist...
During the whole time Miss X kept secretly in touch with Intelligence, finally tipped them off that Jan. 21, 1938 would be a good day on which to arrest Glading, Williams, Munday and Whomack. They were all caught with highly incriminating papers, according to the Crown, and these included plans for Britain's new super-secret 14-inch naval gun, claimed to be vastly more effective than any other naval weapon of this calibre. Since the Soviet Union is now concentrating on building up the first real Russian navy (TIME, Feb. 28) and is in the market for naval...
Thus acclaimed in Cincinnati last week by Tom Shea, poet laureate of the hoboes, was handsome, bald-headed Jeff Davis, head of Hoboes of America, Inc. and the International Itinerant Workers Union. The occasion: his coronation as king of the League of Hoboes of the World. Soon after the crown, conceived from the top of a coal-burning stove, had been placed on his head, said King Jeff: "This has a bolt inside, and it's starting to puncture my scalp...