Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opera hat this year is a new low crown that looks well on every man. Gone are the grotesque over height of the old operas...
...days later suddenly, like his brother before him, was called to Paradise. A "doctor" said he died of heart disease, but speculation was rife as to the cause of his opportune death. Opportune it was for Princess Dayang Dayang because Sultan Wasit, like Edward VIII, had not yet been crowned, and not having been crowned, his son, Ismale, had neither the formal title of crown prince nor a clear right of succession. Thus Dayang Dayang had another chance at the throne...
...frankness" that "democracies are always about two years behind dictatorships." In these circumstances, argued the Prime Minister, the democratic British Cabinet are doing the best they can and "every phase of the defense problem is being studied by the best brains of the country, including 29 Ministers of the Crown, 179 officers of the Fighting Services, 283 civil servants, eleven representatives of the Dominions and 30 persons outside the Government services...
...might be expected, the Crown Prince of Selangor. Because the Colonial Office dislike him, British pressure deprived him of his rank and forced in Son No. 3 as Crown Prince. Last week the Sultan of Selangor was reported somewhat feebly attempting to convince William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, Secretary of State for the Colonies, that Malay custom was interfered with when Son No. 2 was also rejected...
...bellied King Carol of Rumania was last week back in Bucharest, his capital, after an eventful visit to Prague where he had discussed future policy towards Russia with Czechoslovakia's pro-French President Eduard Benes. To Prague also went Carol's 15-year-old son, rolypoly Crown Prince Mihai, for King Carol, suspecting that his former wife Princess Helen might return to Rumania in his absence and make trouble, was not taking the risk of leaving Mihai behind. So strongly did he feel about what he considered to be Princess Helen's capacity for mischief that...