Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Repudiating rumors that King Vittorio Emanuele and Crown Prince Umberto opposed the Axis policy which might have carried Italy into war, the Foreign Minister said that on the contrary His Majesty and His Royal Highness, foreseeing this possibility, had "asked the privilege and honor of serving the country in arms." He warned Britain and France that "real peace" will be impossible to get if they insist on Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland regaining their independence. Nor will Italy, declared Ciano, attempt to create a Balkan Bloc. In a slap at the Allied blockade control he concluded: "Italy continues to follow...
Long lacking has been a concise, up-to-date, inexpensive encyclopedia of the theatre. The Theatre Handbook and Digest of Plays (Crown, $3), out last week, adequately fills the need. It is marred by too much sloppy writing and too many canned opinions; but inside its 900 pages Editor Bernard Sobel-a veteran of Broadway-has crammed a vast amount of useful information about the theatre's thousands of years...
...Franklin Roosevelt had a long talk with Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas few days back. Its gist, as freely reported in inner circles: That the President solemnly told Mr. Douglas that he was the Crown Prince & Heir Apparent to the New Deal but that his election in 1940 is an impracticable dream...
Predictions are dangerous, but if all the Crimson "ifs" were realized, this squad would have a fine chance to break up the firm Leheigh-Penn State domination of Eastern wrestling in the championships at Syracuse next March. It would take about four individual titlists to bring the crown to Cambridge, and with a lot of hard work, that quartet might possibly emerge from among Ted Schoenberg, Bruce Richardson, Dick Thomas, Bill Daughaday, Tom Lacey and Vern Miller
...sixteenth season as coach of the court squad, Lon Jourdet, the only alumni coach in the league, will have a completely veteran team available if he wishes to use it. The Quakers will miss Payson Brickley, 1939 captain; Tony Mischo, runner-up for the league's individual scoring crown, and Bill Dignan and Chuck Diven, but they still have Ross Hahn and Bruce Pearce as forwards; Harian Gustafson, football captain, at center, and Captain Gerry Seeders and Bernie Schrieber at the guards. In fact that is the way Pennsylvania will line up, at least for its early games...