Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Princess Chevikiar Ibrahim*,72, great-granddaughter of Mohamed Ali (founder of Egypt's modern royal dynasty), cousin of King Farouk and first wife of his father (the late King Fuad, whom she divorced while he was still Crown Prince), grande dame of Cairo society, authoress, philanthropist, five-times-married suffragist leader; in Cairo...
...diapers. At twelve, young Hall made his first tour of Europe (in a Pan-hard); at 17, he was ridden clear around the world; at 18 he attended George V's Coronation Durbar (1911) in India, watched the imperial sweat drip from the ermine band of the royal crown, while rajahs and princes made obeisance in robes of gold...
...Sheldon Grade School, where she has the third grade, Miss Lizzie found teachers and pupils waiting to place a golden crown on her head and install her on a "throne"-a school desk covered with yellow crepe paper. It was a school holiday-but the 230 kids all showed up anyway. All morning the townsfolk poured into the red schoolhouse to shake hands with Miss Lizzie, who has taught 1,294 boys & girls in her day-more than Sheldon's present population...
...Stockholm, Hans Gerschweiler (Switzerland) won out over 18-year-old Dick Button (New Jersey) for the men's world figure-skating crown and set off a howl in Sweden's press. Stockholm's Tid-ningen said: "The best skater lost. . . ."; Dagens Nyheter added: "The judge lacked experience...
...Born. To Crown Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, 37, and Prince Bernhard, 35: their fourth child, fourth daughter (the others: Beatrix, 9, Irene, 7, Margriet, 4); at Soestdijk Palace, The Netherlands. Weight: 6 Ibs. 10 oz. Daughter's birth rated a 51-gun salute, a quarter-hour's pealing of church bells (a son-who would have been the first male heir to the throne in 62 years-would rate 101 guns, a half-hour's bell-ringing...