Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recruiting a group of some 250 white vigilantes armed with clubs to protect each other's lives and property as best they could. While the Sokobin "good neighbor policy" was pursued by U. S. citizens, the white club-wielders dashed about Tsingtao in groups of five, cracking the crown of every yellow native they suspected of looting. Tsingtao by this time looked from a distance like one great smoking pyre of chaos, but after some 36 hours of club work, and before the Japanese conquerors arrived, cables reported the city "quiet...
...Countess of Sessex, a villainess with designs on the King's person. The plots of Triangle shows rarely jell, they coagulate. This one is no exception. Stopfidget, a scurrilous rakehell who has been exiled to Blight, flies back to England with his hungry balloonist friend, Sweazle. The crown jewels are stolen. Clarendon grabs the throne. London burns. The feminine plebs, weary of the Duke of Clarendon's despotism, picket him with ribald signs: Unfair to Organized Love; We Want Charles; Want Him BAD. Charles is restored and the "semi-opera" ends with the cast singing, as usual...
...finally became almost surrealistic. She bought a hideous house at Brighton, spent $250,000 to remodel it into something worse. Her gardens were planted with tin and china flowers. She built a staircase of imitation books with joke titles, was delighted to see visitors try to pocket a half crown painted on her doorstep. For house wear her favorite garb was a cheap flannel nightgown, fastened by an emerald and diamond brooch, from which hung a sixpenny police whistle. She had more lawsuits than she could count and called her house Writs Hotel. Half-blind, bedridden, living in pigsty disorder...
...chested, lusty Antony, easily bored, with ten mistresses to Caesar's one, seemed an even less likely fellow for any woman to hold for long. Cleopatra held him nearly 13 years. For her he deserted his brilliant wife Fulvia, his beautiful wife Octavia, risked a revolution to crown Cleopatra Queen of Egypt, risked the good opinion of posterity by making their three children his heirs, ignoring his four in Rome. Finally he divorced Octavia at the risk of war, the war which finished...
...among the classes suffering from the consequences of the inflation, the impression was that Hitler would restore the monarchy. A plebiscite held in 1932 would undoubtedly have resulted in a monarchial restoration Dr. Bruening said. But President von Hindenburg refused to permit a plebiscite on the grounds that the crown should not depend on a vote of the people. At present, he added, there is not much hope for a restoration...