Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia Saturday night, M. Bernard Fox '38 and Miss Joan Tozzer of Boston won the national senior pair figure skating crown. Last year Fox took first in the national junior singles championships, besides winning the junior pair title with Miss Tozzer...
...Washington, where his handsome young father was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, young James found plenty of excitement. On one alarming occasion officers searched hours for him, while he was gaily riding through the countryside on the back of a motorcycle behind Crown Prince (now King) Leopold of Belgium...
...army, educate a public, enlist foreign sympathies. During the first year of siege the Fifth Regiment in Madrid had the duty of packing off to Valencia the art treasures of the capital (TIME, Feb. 1, 1937).* Public statues, including Madrid's favorite, Cybele, the goddess with the civic crown who has long driven a marble chariot opposite the post office, were sealed in sandbag pyramids...
...Chinese Premier, Dr. H. H. Kung, was found last week to have quietly left Hankow, where his Government continued to organize resistance to the Japanese, and arrived in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. There he was greeted by Mme Kung, her brother, No. 1 Chinese Financier T. V. Soong, and her famed sisters, Chinese Air Force Chief Mme Chiang Kai-shek and Mme Sun Yatsen, widow of the sainted "Father of the Chinese Republic...
Before the Assembly was a proposal to repeal a church law which, since the reign of Henry VIII, has forced the Church of England to consecrate any and all bishops appointed by the Crown (i.e., the Government). Speaking in favor of this, Lord Hugh reminded his fellows that the present Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, is a Unitarian, as are all his family. Said Churchman Cecil: "Whatever function he is called upon to perform under the Constitution, the present Prime Minister performs it thoroughly and conscientiously. Nevertheless ... he is ... a Unitarian Christian,* and it certainly does seem to me . . . that...