Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...career there to a close; his disappointed father put him to work on his grandfather's farm near Portsmouth. Once more drink and an unguarded tongue fouled him with the authorities. He left town in a hurry, headed for General Amherst's French & Indian-fighting army at Crown Point, at the southern end of Lake Champlain. There he enlisted in Rogers' famed Rangers, just in time to join the heroic two months' march on and retreat from St. Francis, Canadian Indian village that had been the hornet-nest base for many a raid against the frontier...
...years has there been a male heir to the Dutch Crown. Should Prince Consort Bernhard ("Benno") prove to have sired a manchild, Netherlanders will be wild with joy. Meanwhile the impecunious German princely family of Prince Consort Benno, the ancient House of Lippe-Detmold, are having some of their debts discreetly taken care of. It was learned that hawk-nosed Netherlands Premier Dr. Hendrikus Colijn recently made a quiet visit to Lippe-Detmold in Germany, made creditors happy to the tune of some...
Meanwhile Manhattan Beautician Miss Gloria Bristol was back from Europe bursting with professional details of how Crown Princess Juliana lost some 30 lbs. within three months after her marriage, changed from a dumpling damsel into a royal wife with chic. "What Wallis Warfield was to the American woman over 40 who thought that life and romance ended with one's first youth," cried Miss Bristol, "Princess Juliana has become to millions of girls who had almost resigned themselves to the fate of the wallflower...
According to Beautician Bristol, Crown Princess Juliana first went on a liquid diet for five days, then ate sparing but well-rounded meals and was vigorously massaged, for Her Royal Highness was already muscular and it was felt that further exercise would simply make her more robust. She was given a light face peel, not the harsh so-called "acid peel" but a new European "mineral peel," to improve the texture of her skin. Her hair was thinned and "sculptured . . . widening and softening the waves and setting it closer to the back of her head." Finally makeup experts advised...
...Crown Princess' rejoicing came former Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany this week, to take tea with Her Royal Highness and her husband at Soestdijk. Besides a large bunch of white and red roses the exile from Doorn brought visible assurance that his late rumored serious illness was exaggerated...