Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italians there was in the Spanish situation an enormous opportunity to obtain revenge for the British attitude on their Ethiopian conquest. No longer will it be possible for the Crown to maintain Gibraltar in the security they have enjoyed in years past...
This week the Duc de Guise, bewhiskered pretender to the vanished throne of France, attempted from his Belgian exile to create an impression that what was afoot was a coup to crown him. "We have decided," royally manifestoed Guise again, as he often has before, "to reconquer the throne of our fathers! The monarchy, while protecting the Church, will not be clerical...
...repressive political system. To Rome, Director Mamoulian, despite his Hollywood background, was an artist and a good one. Film Tsar Luigi Freddi entertained him at his home, where no Hollywoodman has been before. Princess Jane San Faustino (née Jane Campbell of Manhattan) introduced him to Crown Prince Umberto at a smart midnight party. Admirers brought him gifts-art objects, rare books, an Eleonora Duse autograph. Naive-looking, bespectacled Mamoulian finally fled, dazzled, to restful Capri...
...society's shield: a button bearing a top hat with U. S. A. on the crown and a cane and gloves rampant on a blue field. Its slogan: "He who walks backward never stubs...
...strange, crown-like formation which splashing milk produces is caught by Professor Edgerton's camera. The entire stroke of a tennis racquet or golf club can be photographically dissected and analyzed...