Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roland Sink, short, light, and only 19, has competed in three races this year and won all of them. His 4:17 mile in the New England A.A.U. last week made Boston sports columnists speculate that he may succeed to the crown which Dodds abdicated when he announced his retirement earlier this year. Sink is enrolled in the Naval Midshipmen's Supply School...
...Dominion Status. The stakes were greater than India itself, for they included the Empire and the world. The Wavell Plan was the first step toward Dominion status. When that was accomplished, India would become an equal partner in the Commonwealth, free (if she so desired) to secede from the Crown. Was Britain not risking "the brightest jewel of the British Crown?" Indians were not Britons linked by ties of blood and sentiment to the islands in the distant northern...
Eleanor Roosevelt had an ancient Egyptian ring coming to her from the estate of British Egyptologist Major R. G. Gayer-Anderson, who died last month after willing five such rings to five famed men: the late President, Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, Sweden's Crown Prince Gustaf, Egypt's King Farouk...
Socialism v. the Crown. Meanwhile, the Daily Express dug up a non-actionable Laski quote-this time on the Crown. In The Labor Party and the Constitution, Professor Laski wrote: "No one can doubt that the existence of the monarchy makes the realization of socialism a peculiarly difficult adventure...
...Latin Americans, no glittering titles, no lavish profligates. Gambling's heroic days were gone: the days when the Princess Suvarov (descendant of Russia's famed general) assaulted the bank at Monte Carlo for a solid month and left it with a daily deficit; the days when German Crown Prince Wilhelm won 2,000,000 francs on the eve of World War I, in which his father and he were about to gamble away an empire; the days when gay Edward VII brought along the prim Prince of Wales (later George V) who said: "It's like...