Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Malacanan Palace before dawn, early-rising President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines reached for a light switch, barked his shins in the dark, found his way to a telephone, ordered immediate cancellation of Philippine daylight saving time two weeks before it was scheduled to end by law. In Florence, Crown Prince Umberto of Italy called upon Crown Prince Mihai of Rumania who had just had his royal appendix out. Mihai, 15, had been stricken while visiting his mother Princess (once Queen) Helen. His father King Carol kept in touch by telephone from Bucharest where His Majesty's brother Prince...
...moments, he became so incensed at a partner at cards that he signaled to have the crucifix removed, let loose such a volley of oaths that his companions cried him down: "Holy Father, for God's sake, Holy Father!" So, at least, writes Valerie Pirie in The Triple Crown, a lively account of the Papacy published last month (Putnam...
Richard reached 21 and came into the Dorchester estate only this year. Died, Brigadier Henry Archdale Tomkinson, 55, manager of King George V's and VI's racing and breeding studs; in London. He annually wagered a half-crown (62?) with Sailing Master Major Sir Philip Hunloke that the King's horses would win more races than the King's racing cutter Britannia. Died, Most Reverend Michael James Gallagher, 70, Roman Catholic Bishop of Detroit since 1918, longtime ecclesiastical friend and protector of political Priest Charles Edward Coughlin; of a throat ailment; in Detroit...
...should be distressed, and justly so, by this, his latest work. Around the sordid scandal of Mayerling he has woven a dashingly domantic fliction, full of florid gestures, plots and counterplots, saved from melodramatic banality only by its insistence on the eternal antithesis between power and justice. The liberal Crown Prince Rudolph schemes to seize the throne from Franz-Joseph, his father, in order to relieve the oppressed people, but even as his coup d'etat succeeds he realizes that the maintenance of power can lead only to more bloodshed, greater oppression. Tormented by his inability to change the very...
With most of the figures dressed in huge playing cards, the first panel shows Edward on his throne, vacillating, a kneeling Stanley Baldwin offering him a crown. Mrs. Simpson waits at the garden gate with her pet dog while the Archbishop of Canterbury and Queen Mary look on in horror. In the second panel, Edward in raincoat with Mrs. Simpson on his arm is marching over a bridge. Queen and Archbishop are still horrified, while Stanley Baldwin as the Jack of Clubs sits completely dejected on a stone beside a sorrowing Knave who might be Anthony Eden. In both panels...