Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engaged in effective propaganda for Burmese independence. Just before Pearl Harbor Londoners flocked to hear him twit British imperialism. When he was reminded of the Japanese menace, U Saw made a restrained statement of loyalty to the Crown: "The people of Burma are rather inclined to rely on the devil they know than on the devil they don't." Then he suavely added: "It is not for me to decide [between Britons and Japs] the degree of their devilment." On his way home U Saw perhaps got as far as Cairo. Then no more was heard...
...Cities of Mecca and Medina - but he was better known during his reign (1876-1909) as Abdul the Damned. He squatted within a triple-walled palace at Constantinople, amassed women (four wives, 233 concubines) and wealth ($112,000,000 in jewels, millions more in oilfields and other jiftlik, or crown lands). In 1920, after he and his sick empire had died, his numerous heirs began one of the most fantastic inheritance suits of all time...
...watched her feminine forays into the masculine world of journalism. Three months ago she reported Lord Haw-Haw's trial in a memorable piece for the New Yorker. Last week, in a 13-column essay in the same magazine, Reporter West covered the eight-minute trial of The Crown v. John Amery, traitor. Her piece showed up the run-of-the-mine court reporter as the deadline-hurried, space-confined newsman he generally...
Whatever the truth, that little safe in Norway promised more confusion and intrigue among the Habsburgs. Already Norwegians, descendants of the lithographer, were claiming the crown of Austria...
...When Crown Prince Umberto, Lieutenant General of the Realm, named him Premier to succeed Ferrucio Parri, De Gasperi was ill with influenza. At first, propped up in bed, sneezing and rheumy-eyed, he haggled with fellow politicians. Then, pale and weak, he left his bedchamber for day-&-night sessions in the Chigi Palace. Punctually at 7 each morning a neighbor's phonograph woke...