Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain's academic world. The Provost, who holds the office for life, is appointed by the Crown, must be a Master of Arts in the University of Oxford or of Cambridge, must reside in Eton College during the whole of every school term. Reputed to receive a stipend of some $25,000 per year, he must hold no other money-making...
...issue regulations which, so long as they are in the form "for the public safety," may be of any kind General Dill thinks best and unchallengeable in any court of law; 3) order the arrest, detention or exclusion from Palestine of anyone; 4) order private property forfeited to the Crown or destroyed as a punitive measure. Arab leaders last week offered a reward of $2,500 for the death or capture of General Dill...
...claim to nobility when she was unable to provide him with a proper birth certificate, admitted that she had deceived him. Because no O'Brien has claimed the peerage of Thomond since 1774, the title had be come extinct. Last week, though in London representatives of the British Crown denied resurrecting the title, Oilman O'Brien proudly exhibited elaborately stamped documents which, he announced, entitled him and his wife to make their bow before King Edward VIII at his Coronation next...
...president of the Goldblatt stores went Major General Frank Parker, 64, wartime commander of the First Division, holder of the Distinguished Service Medal with two silver star citations for gallantry in action, the French War Cross with three palms and the Italian Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown, Commander of the French Legion of Honor, the Belgian Order of the Crown and the Order of Polonia Restituta. Said Brother Maurice Goldblatt: "Naturally . . . we feel very fortunate in being able to get a man like General Parker. With his army training and his reputation as a leader he should...
Uninformed investors looking for gold stocks might pass over Kaw Crow, Grull Wihksne, McLeod Cockshutt, Cotton Belt, Porcupine Crown, Buffalo Ankerite, Canadian Malartic, Ymir Yankee Girl. But 'they could hardly resist the most glittering name of all-Yukon Gold. From an investment manual they would be shockingly undeceived. Yukon Gold does nothing but mine tin in the Federated Malay States...