Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case of a German attack. If true, this piece of information practically wrecked the Little Entente then & there, but moreover the Stoyadino-vich newsorgan Samouprava keynoted: "Let us all remember that Haile Selassie paid the penalty for entrusting his destiny to the Democratic States by the loss of his Crown...
...rabid Republicans decided that popular King Christian would be the only possible President, concluded they might as well retain him as King. On May 14, two days after George VI's Coronation in London, comes the Silver Jubilee of Christian X. Representing Denmark at Westminster Abbey will be Crown Prince Frederik, who will then fly back by specially chartered plane to Copenhagen in time for his father's celebration...
...issued an order of the day advising Rumanian troops that he, Nicholas, remained President of the Supreme War Council. This order of the day was suppressed by command of toothy Prince Nicholas' even toothier elder brother, King Carol II. His Majesty was also graciously pleased to convene the Crown Council so that it might deal with what was obviously a national emergency...
...Rumania under a debt of gratitude to the Throne. In holding this opinion King Carol glosses over or forgets that in his youth he took a morganatic wife, Mme Zizi Lambrino, put her aside to marry Princess Helen of Greece and Rumania, who is the mother of Rumanian Crown Prince Mihai, and not only was divorced but actually abdicated as Crown Prince prior to his triumphal restoration as King (TIME, June 16, 1930). This behavior by King Carol led his brother Prince Nicholas to suppose he would find His Majesty sympathetic when Nicholas too made a morganatic marriage, running...
...shaking in his shoes about Finals,--or whether it's just because it's spring, and the flowers and birds and breezes are out and the sun doesn't look at you slantwise, we don't know. But the fellow who invented Spring Vacation deserves a halo and a crown of gold...