Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victories over M. I. T. and Columbia making it a favorite to take the crown this afternoon, Bert Haines' might none the less faces a tough assignment, for the seven crews they are facing are the best 150 pound boats in the East...
Something of the regard with which the English invested their ceremony is known to the Americans who have paused in the Library of Congress for a silent minute before the draft of the Declaration of Independence, and who remember that the British crown is one thousand years older. It is not surprising that outsiders did not catch the spirit of the moment, for the peculiar, insular English people were at the moment most solemn and most English. "Defender of the Faith" is one of the titles of their King, but the meaning of the phrase has changed. George...
...their May selection Coronation Commentary by Geoffrey Dennis, ordered 10,000 copies. The title was perfectly timed. Of the author, the officials knew that he was Editor & Chief of the Document Service of the League of Nations Secretariat, well-versed in the history and procedure of the British Crown, author of many a forceful magazine article, and husband of a great-niece of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. They knew too that Author Dennis had been at Oxford with the Duke of Windsor, presumably liked...
...used their big new Stage 22, too ft. longer than the lot's ordinary 40-ft. stages; a small army of extras, the St. Luke's Choir and six technical advisers. In this scene Tom Canty, already prayed over, sworn and anointed, is about to get the crown when Prince Edward comes scampering up Westminster Abbey's central aisle to present his claims. When Tom Canty corroborates them, the Archbishop of Canterbury agrees to crown Edward if he can tell the whereabouts of the Great Seal of England. Edward does so with some difficulty. When next seen...
Covent Garden is London's vegetable market and its opera centre. For centuries it has been the playhouse centre too. Charles II lost his heart there to an actress named Nell Gwyn. Last winter a more reckless King lost his crown, and for his brother, who will be anointed this month, all Britain is preparing elaborate celebrations. None will be prouder than that of the Covent Garden Opera. For a month painters, carpenters and electricians have busied themselves inside the Opera House...