Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George VI as a young man witnessed the triumphant re-entry into Brussels- after it had been evacuated by the Germans-of Belgium's King Albert and Crown Prince Leopold, who is now King. In 1935 Britain's present King George and Queen Elizabeth, then Duke & Duchess of York, gave a ball in the British Pavilion at the Brussels Exposition-the last public function at which young King Leopold Ill's dearly beloved and beauteous Queen Astrid ever appeared. After her tragic death in a motoring accident in Switzerland (TIME, Sept. 9, 1935), the Duke of York...
...jargon of strategists and tacticians. had sometimes proved trying. "I listened to the generals and it seemed to me a great responsibility to decide between their different plans," said King Albert, "so I would just pick out the one that I thought made the most sense." Aged only 13, Crown Prince Leopold was permitted to enlist in the Belgian Army as a private, and before the War was over had fought in the trenches under fire. His redoubtable father, when a treacherous chauffeur attempted to kidnap King Albert to the German lines, drew his royal pistol and executed the miscreant...
When King Carol II of Rumania and Crown Prince Michael, onetime (1927-30) King, went shooting with Czechoslovakia's President Eduard Benes, the King barely nosed out the Prince in a playful massacre. In six hours Michael with his shotgun slaughtered 506 pheasants, partridges, hares, rabbits. His able father made a Bohemian holiday by shooting...
Thinking he and his wife had waited long enough for a Paris hotel elevator, Rear Admiral Andrew Theodore Long, U. S. N., Retired, opened the shaft door, peered down to see if the car was coming up. Descending instead of ascending it cracked him on the crown, sent him to a hospital with an injured head...
...horse-racing season covers a full year, from January1 to December 31. During the current season, the two biggest money-winning U. S. race horses have been three-year-old War Admiral, undefeated in eight starts, including the so-called triple crown (Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes), and four-year-old Seabiscuit, champion of the handicap division. Horse-race followers would have liked to see a match between them, but, failing that, were interested to see which would win most money for their respective owners, Samuel D. Riddle and Charles S. Howard. Twice this season War Admiral and Seabiscuit...