Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true story of the most recent attempts to save the life of the world's most famed hemophiliac came to light last week when the onetime Crown Prince of Spain returned to Manhattan after a winter's painful stay in Havana. Alfonso Pio Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, Knight of the Golden Fleece, was born Prince of Asturias 29 years ago next month. He grew up to be a sufferer from hemophilia. His skin is thin, his muscles soft, and his blood does not clot. Consequently a slight cut or bruise may start...
...Sept. 1, 1909 Dr. Cook, after some two years in the Arctic, announced that he had reached the North Pole. Promptly the Crown Prince of Denmark bestowed on him the medal of the Danish Geographical Society. British Journalist Philip Gibbs at once doubted Cook's story. On Sept. 6, Explorer Robert Edwin Peary, who had raced Dr. Cook to the Pole, said of his competitor: "He has simply handed the public a gold brick." Subsequently examining Dr. Cook's polar observations, a University of Copenhagen commission pronounced: "The documents . . . do not contain observation and information which...
...means is Crown Prince Umberto one of the many Italian aristocrats who have rushed to the war in Ethiopia. Amid nationwide furor last week his wife, Belgian-born Crown Princess Marie-José, showed where she stands by engaging passage to sail for Ethiopia as a Red Cross nurse this week...
...saucy-faced little blonde appear in cinema, most of Europe's royalty would be her devoted fans. Queen Mary gasped when she saw Sonja in 1928, deplored the fact that she herself could not figure skate. Edward VIII has paid her many a kingly compliment. In 1934 ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany gave her his diamond stickpin crowned with the Hohenzollern crest. Her own sovereign, King Haakon VII of Norway, sends her a telegram or cable before every foreign appearance. And Reichsführer Adolf Hitler this winter invited Sonja and her parents to his Munich abode...
This was considered last week the most damaging link in the chain of circumstantial evidence drawn by the Crown about the accused man's neck. On the last day of the trial, Ratanji jittered, wept, frequently wiped with a handkerchief his profusely perspiring hands. Yet there was still no direct evidence. After the jury verdict of guilty, Justice Singleton put on the black cap which in Britain means that sentence of Death is to be pronounced. "The law knows but one sentence," he cried, "for the terrible crime you have committed...