Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pont upon the ladder and Romeo Roosevelt below. Scene II between John Boettiger in Juliet's cap upon the ladder and Wooer William Randolph Hearst below. Scene III showed Mrs. Simpson (Helen Essary, wife of the Baltimore Sun's chief Washington correspondent) with Edward in Golden Crown (Newshen Elizabeth Mae Craig, correspondent for New England papers) below her and a black archiepiscopal figure (Martha Strayer, feature writer of the Washington News) intervening (see cut). All this being off the record, Ambassador Ronald Lindsay could not register a protest even though the parody took place in the White House...
...take them along to a State Dinner at Buckingham Palace. His civil servant secretary told him he would have to write and ask the U. S. Embassy to nominate these guests officially and in so doing assume responsibility for their behavior and character. This note the Minister of the Crown wrote with his own hand. The Ambassador consulted his Counselor and was told of the doctrine that "His Majesty's Government do not wish to be asked" such favors. They could be asked, but the Embassy must not risk a snub, and consequently could not act In these circumstances...
...Manhattan's No. 1 newsreel theatre, the Embassy in Times Square, behaved as follows at sight on the screen of: Prince Edward (cheers); Mrs. Simpson (cheers) ; her first husband Commander Spencer, U.S.N. (boos); her second and present husband Mr. Simpson (cheers & boos); the Archbishop of Canterbury (BOOS); new Crown Princess Elizabeth (boos); new King George & Queen Elizabeth (boos!); Prime Minister Baldwin (PROLONGED CATCALLS AND BOOS!); King Edward & Mrs. Simpson bathing in the Mediterranean (CHEERS...
...only did the Prime Minister show himself a great Minister of the Crown, but the whole British people displayed a moral force," said Le Temps of Paris last week. "This test, which was very perilous, has magnificently confirmed the value of British institutions...
This had to mean something because it was a President who spoke, otherwise it was almost Irish gibberish. If no further step is taken, the "dominion status" of the Free State under the Crown-which in any case does not exclude the right of secession-is left pretty much in its gossamer status...