Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...track. There he explained to French Minister Paul Bodard that he was morally bound to keep on fighting, but that with Italy's legions sweeping down unchecked from the north further defense of Addis Ababa was now impossible. It was best for the Empress and their two sons, Crown Prince Asfa-Wassan and round-eyed Prince Makonnen, 13, to leave the country. The Coptic monastery in British-protected Palestine was the first refuge that came to the Emperor's mind. But would the royal family be temporarily safe in French Djibouti, at the other...
...King's income-producing properties are managed by what is in effect a holding company, the Crown Lands Office. Its unsalaried front man is the Minister for Agriculture, now 36-year-old Herbrand Edward Dundonald Brassey Sackville, Earl De La Warr and Viscount Cantelupe. The Commission's two potent drudges are Permanent Commissioner Charles Lancelot Stocks and Assistant Commissioner G. P. Best. They pay the Crown Lands monies to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who pays out the Civil List in turn to His Majesty's Keeper of the Privy Purse...
Benet has been Hotchkiss' managing director for years, wears the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, is a Commander of the Crown of Rumania and a Commander of the Military Order of Christ (Portu al). He was the grand old man of the American Colony in Paris and Mrs. Benet's salons were the envy of all aspiring...
...American policy of advocating insurance in a loud voice, refusing to take the responsibility of paying the premium, and then raising a loud howl when the building is half burned. It not only flagrantly disregards the true facts of the case, but is the usual type of crown to cap the parlor patriotism on the front pages of the last few days. The same attitude has been especially conspicuous in the case of the League and the World Court. Congress praised and advocated collective security and international justice, but when directly faced with the issue backed down...
...Germans each lost 350,000 men; where, between February and July, 23 million shells punctuated the deadlocked argument; Douaumont, captured and recaptured but each time by an accident, the death trap where an explosion wiped out a whole battalion and the corpses were bricked in where they lay. The Crown Prince, dressed in tennis flannels, a racket under his arm, cheering on the troops marching up to the front line; his aide tossing packets of cigarets from a speeding car, and the soldiers stamping them into the mud after he has passed. The German veterans' version of I Want...