Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since shown for Italy a preference so marked that tension in Malta was extreme while Stanley Baldwin was pressing on with "Sanctions" against Benito Mussolini. Last week the Malta Constitution was abolished by His Majesty's Government, Malta was dropped from Responsible Government to the status of a Crown Colony in which the British Governor has the authority of a Dictator. The Italian language, banned by Britain in 1934 from being taught in Malta schools or spoken in Malta law courts, was last week "permanently banned...
Around the head is no frame; no collar is visible; on the stamp appears not even the King's name but simply the word POSTAGE, the denomination and a very small crown off in a corner. When Post Office wickets opened to sell this issue last week, critical officials spoke of "testing the new stamps" and of substituting something more usual if they proved unpopular. In rushed hordes of the King's subjects and bought hand-over-fist some 30,000,000 Edwards. After this not even the crustiest oldster could well call the new King...
Hailed as a new lightweight champion, Ambers embraced his onetime employer, capered around his dressing room in a cardboard crown, urged his manager to get him a match with Welterweight Champion Barney Ross. Product of a bootleg boxing circuit which flourished in upstate New York when promoters were too poor or too parsimonious to pay for licenses, Ambers is 22, untemperamental, attached to numerous other D'Ambrosios by those ties of affection which all right-thinking young pugilists consider themselves conventionally compelled to profess. He makes his home in a Bronx apartment run for him by his sister, often...
...usual King Vittorio Emanuele lived in his "World's Most Luxurious Royal Train" during the week of maneuvers, while Il Duce dashed about at the wheel of his car. As the games opened the "Red Army" under General Amedeo Guillet drove before it the "Blue Army" of Crown Prince Umberto. This was described as a "strategic retreat" and few doubted that His Royal Highness would regain the offensive with success against General Guillet, an officer insufficiently known to the Italian people to make his army's fate of national interest...
...limping, hemophilic Alfonso Pio Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, the Count of Covadonga, 29, eldest son of deposed Alfonso XIII of Spain, technical adviser and salesman with Manhattan's defunct British Motors, Ltd., had pledged part of his share of the Span ish crown jewels as security against loans of "considerable sums...