Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said she, three strange men "appeared out of nowhere" and gave her a working-over. "So you would go to a nightclub?" cried one, and belted her in the forehead. (She had not been to any nightclubs, said red-haired Miss Sothern.) The other two walloped her on the crown, booted her from behind, chucked her into a doorway. Miss Sothern declared she didn't know what it was all about. As soon as she reached her hotel, she telephoned her estranged husband in Manhattan, who said he didn't know what it was all about either...
Died. Prince Gustaf Adolf, 40, eldest son of Sweden's Crown Prince; in the airplane crash that killed Grace Moore; in Copenhagen (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...competitive record started back in 1936, when he entered the National Intercollegiate championships in the first of three attempts at the crown. He was nosed out by Fred Haas of L.S.U., and met'a similar fate at the hands of two more Louisiana players in succeeding years. Barclay side-stepped this jinx long enough to defeat the famous Willie Turnesa in the 1937 event...
...Crown Prince Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia, eagle-faced eldest of Ibn Saud's 40-odd sons, got an eagle's-eye view of Manhattan. In the city on a coast-to-coast tour, the Prince played the tourist to the hilt-hustled straight from the Pennsylvania Railroad Station to the Empire State Building for an educational gape. Manhattan gaped, too: with the Prince was a retinue of protectors hung with cartridge belts, golden swords, and jeweled daggers...
...Samuel has not suddenly turned Spanish republican. Now Viscount Templewood, he describes himself as an "English monarchist," suggests that a new Spanish monarchy might bring back peace and even "vigorous social reform" with the crown. But he makes plain his feeling that almost any form of government would be an improvement over Franco's, and cannot hide his disgust with the Franco regime...