Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ceremony were evolved in last-minute haste by tubby little Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha. To make up his mind on one point he telephoned from Cairo, Egypt to Vichy, France where an eminent expert on protocol was taking a water cure. The question was whether to crown His Majesty with the golden fillet once worn by Ancient Egypt's King Tutankhamen and only unearthed in recent years. This was a good idea, except that Mohammedan sovereigns are never crowned, and Premier Nahas knew that the Egyptian people grew accustomed, when they were subjects of Turkey, to seeing each...
...Most Perfectly Brought Up Boy In The World." Aged four he received a pretty Yorkshire widow, Mrs. Ina Xaylor. as his nurse-governess. She remained his governess until he was 15 and the Egyptian Parliament voted $80,000 to defray the expenses of himself and suite during the Crown Prince's first year of education in England. With Egyptian guards bristling all over the place, Farouk took up country residence at Kenry House, Kingston Hill, soon was greatly liked for his democratic ways by local English tradespeople who still speak of him as "Prince Freddy." Invariably Farouk...
...well come in; you know what a hell of a racket three million feet of gas will make coming out of 2" tubing; and just how damn slick a rig floor can get after the first few barrels of Big Injun crude has squirted up and hit the crown pulley and is now raining down through the rig like an April cloud burst. . . . JIM VANDERGRIFT...
...Oregon, and in the race that ensued, the Bay State not only passed the other ship easily but added insult by crossing her bow. The Bay State could make the New York-Fall River trip in eleven hours, burning 44 tons of coal. In 1854 she yielded the speed crown to the Metropolis. According to one historian, when the Metropolis was under way "the disturbance in the water through which she was passing was such as to give the appearance of her pushing the whole body of water before...
...Lawyer Liebowitz ran for district attorney in Brooklyn, promising a vice cleanup. He was defeated by some 60,000 votes. Such causes as the Scottsboro trials, if of no elective advantage, may crown the Liebowitz career with a judgeship. As for the clients his talents have freed, not all have lived to praise him. Liebowitz sent "Mad Dog" Coll back into the streets. Brother gangsters wiped him out within a week. Convict Max Becker, missing the electric chair for the prison guard's murder, went back to face prison guards who did not forget. The electric chair burns...