Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hearing how upsurging new jobs are going to be provided in the Depressed Areas by Rearmament, rushed through vote after vote last week the enabling bill under which His Majesty's Government are going to borrow ?400,000,000 ($2,000,000,000) for Rearmament. In rapid succession Crown ministers representing the fighting services asked such sums as $410,000,000 for the Army, $525,000,000 for the Navy and spoke casually of setting up "14 new munitions factories." Meanwhile the first long-expected "returning prosperity strike" in the Rearmament industry had suddenly immobilized half the mighty Rolls...
Robert F. Schlafly H. winning the 165 pound crown was a close second to Ditrinco in honors for the tournament...
...growing strength of the "Crown America first" trend here in New England, officers of the club confidently expect that one of the monarch's first royal acts will be to name New England the "Duchy of Farley" and to grant earldoms to the college leaders. It was revealed that the Yale club has invited girl's colleges to form "Eleanor for Queen" clubs and preparatory schools to form "Jimmy-For-Crown-Prince" clubs...
Sight Unseen. A seat anywhere along the Coronation Procession route (see map), and there are 23 miles of grandstand seats, schedules the sitter to see the King & Queen bowling along in their golden Coach of State. After leaving Westminster Abbey the King will be wearing the Imperial State Crown. Other members of the Royal Family will be in open landaus or limousines as will foreign Crown Princes, Special Envoys, Ambassadors. Necessarily the Procession is all that the public can possibly be shown, for the Coronation must take place inside the Abbey. About 15,000 subjects of the King have...
...eyes of faithful, devout members of the Church of England, His Majesty is henceforth a mixture of priest and layman. He has been anointed with holy oil or balm as a bishop is consecrated, and upon his head has briefly rested what is called St. Edward's Crown. This is too sacred to be worn in the open or seen...