Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Hall at Grosvenor House as their temple." The Queen Mother was sponsoring Britain's first Antique Dealers' Fair since 1938. And Queen Elizabeth had sent along four fine old tureens-in the form of a cabbage, a melon, a lemon, and a bunch of asparagus-to crown the show...
...Japan, on the U.S. Education Mission, Stoddard kept insisting to his colleagues that the Emperor ought to be hanged or at least jailed. But in Tokyo, he found himself recommending to his unsuspecting "victim" the right U.S. woman tutor (Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining) for the Crown Prince. And he also helped draft democratic reforms for Japanese education: popularly elected school boards, a simplified alphabet,wider public schooling...
George VI and Elizabeth, home from Africa (see FOREIGN NEWS), had a new tribute for their scrapbook, painstakingly pieced together by 68-year-old Poet Laureate John Masefield (whose services to the Crown earn him roughly $515 a year). He cheerfully reported the world's recognition...
...Communist success was furnished by Count Ernesto Perrier, leader of Sicily's badly shaken right-wing coalition. Acknowledging his side's insufficient concern with the people's urgent economic needs, he said grimly: "Our emblem should have been a plate of spaghetti with a crown...
...only two fights left in him, said Joe. He would defend his crown, for the 24th time, in September. Probable victim: second-rater Joe Baksi (see PRESS). Then, in another year, he would give someone else a final chance at him, and then retire-as undefeated champion, he hoped...