Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik, 45, and Crown Princess Ingrid, 34, daughter of Sweden's Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf: their second daughter, second non-heir to occupied Denmark's throne ; in Stockholm...
...downtown Nelson that afternoon; nevertheless twelve elderly men & women stripped to the buff, knelt and howled. Passers-by knew that the sensitive Doukhobors had been offended again, were resorting to their favorite passive protest.* Among the onlookers stalked a bearded man, wearing 21 oranges in a double-deck crown held together by a net and three dingy white streamers which trailed along behind. The Czar of Heaven (Louis Popoff to the police) did not disrobe then, but he did insist on accompanying the six men and six women to jail. The oranges fell off in the excitement. The Czar understands...
Promptly Popoff paraded again, this time garbed only in his crown. "Let my brothers out of jail," he shouted. Result: two years for the Czar...
...surveying the oversize photograph of his girl, Marge Vattendahl, blazoned on its side. Slim, 20-year-old Marge is a senior at Superior (Wis.) State Teachers' College, met Dick last November when he was home on leave and a guest at the college (where his job was to crown the homecoming queen). Dick took Marge home that night, dated her from then on. When he went back to action, her picture and name went on his famed Lockheed...
...dithering, chivvied by Russian pressure, adamant in demanding the abdication of little King Vittorio Emanuele III. Into this deadlock stepped the King's heir, six-foot Umberto, Prince of Piedmont, with an offer to become his father's keeper while the old King kept the crown. By no means fond of Umberto but for want of anything better, anti-Fascist leaders were in a mood to accept...